Freedom Lodge Kandy

... of person what I absolutely love while I am travelling is to walk around the city, mix with the locals and get a real feel of the place. I would have liked to go to the temple but unfortunately I was not dress well enough to get in :-(. <br><br>In the late afternoon I went to see a show - It was traditional Sri Lankan dancing. It was pretty good actually and at the end, 2 fellows walked on burning coal!! Pretty crazy!<br><br>It was a really good day but fairly uneventful.

... 5 traditional instruments (Pancha Thuryas) started off the evening with the Blowing of the Conch Shell &amp; Drum Orchestra number &#8211; an all male affair. Then there was a Pooja Dance (paying homage to the guardian deities) undertaken by the ladies. Panteru Netum (panteru meaning like a tambourine) was performed by the men, wile the ladies danced a fine Cobra Dance. The action turned extremely colourful and dramatic with the Mask Dance performed by 2 of the ...

... The couple then held half the baby out of the moving train and washed its ass with water and their hand. Delightful! Once they finished the cleaning they threw the soiled underwear out the window! Imagine if that hit you in the face while you waiting for the train to go past! No less than 10 minuets later the baby **** itself again.... I took this as my cue to leave! Kandy is Sri Lanka's second ...

... as we were surrounded by mile upon mile of Tea trees. Turns out that the factory employs 2000 people and houses them all and pays for medical treatment and everything. Think I might ask for a transfer here. We then headed to Kandy down the hills again, stopping for lunch at the side of the road and eating with our hands which for us Johnny foreigners was quite the novelty, but I feel that we blened in well and any passing Sri Lankans would not have noticed the ...

... Cheers, Algy, those blue porcelain s******** the Transkei coast, sort of, outside your house, really tickled my three brain cells ... so go find 1421 by HM submarine captain Gavin Menzies ... for you'll find more out about those strandloper shell dumps than u bargained for .... so, forthwith past the Brit's Kandy Lake buttress, thinking of the Test I'm gonna watch between SA and India in Chennai (Madras) ..... goooo, MaBoereBoere.....

... area, with a not half bad view, and protected from the beating sun by a poorly constructed corrugated steel roof.   Some mild winds during the first few days had caused some minor concern about the stability of the steel roofing sheets.    Mid-morning on Day 5 - England are making a cack-handed attempt at a day-long rearguard action to save the game.    A slightly stronger-than-mild gust of wind caused a corrugated steel sheet blowing loose on a nearby stand to ...

After the most scenic train i've ever had, notwithstanding it was 3 hours late and took 7 hours to travel 120kms (i.e. it was slow). We returned to Kandy praying the embassy had done it's job. Well they hadn't and we weren't the only whities annoyed - came back Monday was the reply. We retorted "but the sign says 4 days, this is the 5th and our plane is tomorrow ...

... 8221; seems to have dashed across his mind.<br><br>With Nuri at my side I take a trip into the surrounding jungle. First we visit the Place of the Ancestors. Filled with reverence Nuri points out a large flat stone, under whose pointed edges tiny branches have been placed. For somebody who lives in a cave this could represent, I imagine, a magnificent toy palace. Afterwards, he shows me, with an identical show of respect, the empty space beside. Here, the ancestors ...

... places that are regular holiday destinations. Of course there are sometimes problems here and no where you travel is ever going to be 100 % risk free. What really made me think about it was reading in the local Paper (it was in English before you get too impressed) That Ronan Keating had cancelled an up coming event in Colombo citing security concerns as the reason, The article pointed out that our very own Sir Cliff Richard had played in Colombo just a ...