Frangipani Tree Galle

Hier soir avons mange au Hard Rock restaurant, rien a voir avec la fameuse chaine... Ai pris des noddles au poulet, excellents. Puis sommes alles dans un bar ou on est allonges sur des coussins a ecouter du reggae et boire des mojitos, mes premiers au Sri Lanka!
Rentre vers 23h30, lecture et dodo.
Reveil ce matin vers 9h, sous le soleil, prends direct un bus local a 9 roupies ( 6centimes) pour aller a Galle tirer de l'argent, acheter des timbres et poster mes cartes ...

... there used to be a ship in the building, but as it’s now been closed for 2 or 3 years, it’s been removed.

There were lots of interesting buildings and architectural delights as I wandered around, but there’s no doubt that this is a lovely place to stay and base yourself in the south-west (Unawatuna excepting!). I returned to my digs, having had two lots of snacks at my favourite local tiny café at the top of Lighthouse ...

... http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggoodma n/sets/72157617071724173/ Galle http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggoodma n/sets/72157617071733993/ Hikkaduwa http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggoodma n/sets/72157617071736805/ Yala National Park - A male leopard stares us down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflSCiqM IV0 Galle Fort - Sunset over the Bay of Bengal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdN0eaHv Clo Waves crashing on the beach at Hikkaduwa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8ny7Bd _GI

... in the shade. We pop into the Dutch Church where the cleaner points out lots of stuff and asks to put something in the donation box. Almost the entire internal floor seems to contain graves. We head back to the Hotel and fulfil my other wish - some beach time.....I head into the water and don't really come out except to take some pictures. The beach is white sand lined with hotels/restaurants and lots of palm trees (one even has a ...

... by the tsunami. Supposedly at kilometer 95 on the main road there's a memorial for a train that was taken adrift by the flooding and about 1500 passengers died. I heard you can see the train cars still in the same spot where they were found after the tsunami, but they were nowhere to be found. After asking some people, it's believed that the train cars were taken to Colombo ...

... little more discreet.. We continued onto the clock tower which had great views of the Galle Cricket Ground. The fort over this side is in excellent condition with many little things to explore... We were almost back to where we started so we made our way to the local pizza shop to get something to eat ... it was great -- i just had the veggie noodles and they came in second behind our 5 star chef at the 1 star ...

... eaters, beach-goers, urban dwellers, and more, leaving the turtles with hardly any beach to lay their eggs. Now, the only way to keep the five species of sea turtles--Green, Hawksbill, Leatherback, Olive Ridley, and Loggerhead viable was to take action--through hatcheries, through predator exclusion cages (as is done on the east coast of the US and elsewhere, where suburban skunk and racoon populations have soared). So Kansiriyapin ...

... with family members over the phone. (Someone later explained that phone communication around Galle was shut down in case some 'bad people' were trying to communicate amongst themselves). Finally, someone explained that 3 ships had tried to attack the navy. The navy had intercepted and the attack was over. End of story. My mind was at ease. Then I get an SMS from WUSC (in Colombo) stating that Galle had been attacked and that 'fighting continues. Don't ...

... I could plug my Power book in and upload to the site. I had a good few weeks of up loads to do and after a couple of hours in there I had got through have of them, but my battery gave up on me. I really should try and keep up with this stuff! I left the Internet place at 1.30pm and headed into Galle to try and find a nice place to eat. After an hour of walking around in the skull burning heat I would have settle for anywhere half decent. It seems people in Galle don't ...

... off for The Lighthouse. The food would consist of a barbeque buffet of enormous proportions, with three hugemongous grills serving every sort of fish, meat and kebab you could think of, and back inside were bowls and bowls of all the accompaniments to a barbie you could think of! As we entered the dining area, we were shown to a table for two, just a dropped-catch away from the excuse that is the England Cricket Team, looking very smug after saving the First Test. A run down of the ...