Camelot Beach Negombo

... prince residence for 3000rs very clean , very modern room with air conditioning and tv and fabulous.. it is the place to stay!!!

There was a little rain for about 5 mins but then it cleared to be a hot afternoon. We thought Negombo was a small place but in the heat of the afternoon the 20 min walk seemed a long way to the coconut palm - where we had the best tuna pizza ever for 580rs/£3. We realised the last ...

... gift shop. to be fair we did get a massage thrown in whilst they were showing us there wares. in fact, apart from the fish reflexology we had in singapore, it was my first massage, which considering how ticklish i am, was actuaally quite enjoyable. tomorrow we will go back to plan a and spend the day lazing around, although we will probably do a couple more outings before we leave.

... a minion call Sri Lankan Airways when he decided to return home and ask them to arrange seats for him and his party. Being the only time of year the flights are genuinely busy they refused as they were unwilling to bump a whole planeload of passengers; he supposedly had around two hundred people in his party. Never daunted he called his relative who bumped a whole flight of Mihin Lanka passengers and sent the plane to London to pick up the party. A week after they returned to Sri ...

... Matara and the same is true all the way inland to Welawaya. Our bus out of the mountains was stopped twice and most people alighted to have their papers checked; we were left on the bus with the older women and clergy and only on the second occasion were our passports checked. The search of cargo was cursory on the first occasion and better on the second but none of the hundreds of pottery curd pots were even looked at. The only bomb scare during our visit was a package opened by a ...

... provided by agencies with her four surviving children (3 girls aged 14, 13 and 10, and 1 boy aged 12) in conditions which can only be described as poor. Driven by government inaction she was forced to relocate northwards to Negombo where she has a relative. Having shown interest in her story, Anna asked me to take a look at her new (rented) home, pointing to a collection of small, ramshackle, wooden buildings just off the beach front, and only 60m from where we ...

... anal in ) I decided to have a look around the oth** end of the shop and I am bloody glad I did , th**e in a glass case wh**e a brand of canine pain kill**s that up until then we all thought was not available in Sri Lanka. Not only are they the same brand I use in the UK they are a fraction of the price. As I had a vet with me I was able to buy 2 bottles for the weekend clinic and my store cupboard h**e Feeling v**y pleased with myself I wand ...

... song or do the hokey pokey...something English anyway!! 1030-1130 - this is the time they are split into their 2 classes. They usually do some arts and crafts. 1130am - 1215pm - structured play. Things like "Simon says", "musical statues". Also a few Singlase nursery rhymes are thrown in at some point 1215pm - 1pm - lunchtime and goodbye for another day! So that's ...

So to set the scene.....I'm based in Hambantota in South East Sri Lanka. 7500 people were killed in this village alone due to the Tsunami. It has since been rebuilt, although no doubt every single family has been affected. The main cause for the huge loss was because it occurred when the whole village (mainly woman) were at the weekly Sunday fish market along the coast. The project I'm working with is called "Smile Lanka". It is part of Smile International but has to be ...

... we'd originally planned to leave at 2:00 a.m. I'd read enough about the freezing cold at the top. We didn't want to be there too early. At least ten big busloads and several vans of pilgrims started before we did. Our guide said that some had made a 12 hour drive just to get to where we were. Some were clearly family groups, others groups of youngsters or mixed groups of older persons. There were babies and toddlers who needed to be carried as ...

... Sri Lanka at 12.30! The Silver Sands hotel was the only budget hotel mentioned in Negombo (a beach resort just north of the airport where we were headed for our first night) in our very small pocket guidebook (which we decided would do us as we're only here for 2 weeks) so we decided to give it a go. We weren't sure what to expect but we needn't have worried because it was absolutely lovely, right on the beach ...