Global Towers Hotel Colombo

... again - Great :-(!! I just a post office at the airport to send one my diary back home which was very expensive actually. I then had to take a shuttle to catch the bus to Colombo.<br><br>I had been told by the tourist office that the bus was 100 Rupees so once on the bus I gave him 100 and he tried to make me pay an extra 100 for my bag - I said no way I am simply not paying. The price is normally 70 + 30 for your bag and the cheeky ******* wanted to ...

Last week I was pre-occupied with Simon's impending visit to Colombo. It was quite surreal to come back from the office on Friday afternoon to find him asleep in my apartment. After an eleven hour flight and a couple of hours sleep he was ready to hit the town and I took him on his first trip in a tuc-tuc to the Gallery Café for dinner. The only other place where we&#8217;ve used a similar mode ...

... Vesak, a hugely important full moon poya celebration on Friday, May 8th. We past street vendors and 3-wheel tuq-tuqs (I'll provide photos soon). Got to Hotel Mt Lavinia. An old and fading, but still picturesque resort, it appears to have seen better, grander days. Still, it is a daily popular destination for young newlyweds to come for their celebrations and photos. I've seen wedding parties at almost all hours of the day, each dressed in different wedding ...

... Vesak, a hugely important full moon poya celebration on Friday, May 8th. We past street vendors and 3-wheel tuq-tuqs (I'll provide photos soon). Got to Hotel Mt Lavinia. An old and fading, but still picturesque resort, it appears to have seen better, grander days. Still, it is a daily popular destination for young newlyweds to come for their celebrations and photos. I've seen wedding parties at almost all hours of the day, each dressed in different wedding ...

... ver muito do melhor do Sri Lanka num periodo de tempo relativamente curto. Duas semanas sao suficientes para visitar uma boa parte do pais, e pelo que vimos ate agora podemos sem duvida recomendar uma visita. A maioria da populacao (72%) e Budista, e o segundo grupo etnico sao os Tamil (20%). Nos anos 80 conflitos entre estes dois grupos culminaram numa longa guerra civil e numa serie de atentados terroristas por todo o pais. Desde 2000 ha um cessar fogo ...

... and Asda), and faces - The local school (kids wear the same basic uniforms across the country) - Boys playing cricket on an area of rough waste land - Cows roaming loose on the roads - often aimlessly walking on the wrong side! - And dozens of dogs which mostly appeared to be either poorly kept or wild The Negombo area is also the heartland of Christian Sri Lanka, as borne out by the numerous churches and florid wayside Catholic shrines scattered about the town and ...

... line up to enter the temple. When the puja ceremony started at 6h30pm 3 priests and an elephant holding lotus flowers came to make offerings at the 3 main shrines. The elephant did a #2 at the same time!!! Not very appropriate, but I guess being a temple elephant with ivory tusks ...

... vet check (our vet had to attend to a sick elephant 4 hours drive away) as I got the temple I was as always nearly bowled over by Nippa and Milkshake (2 of the original temple pups from last year that gave me the idea for Dogstar) as I have been looking after them since they were 6 weeks old they are rather fond of me and always race each other to the gate to see me. I was delighted to find Mango just seconds behind them wagging her tail and ...

... 8 less trees. They are all coconut trees, so even though a few of them weren't where the building is to take place, they needed to be removed so that coconuts don't fall on the children as they play. I've now added to my singlase vocab - "mass" is meat, "bat" is rice and "oler" is potato (of course they are all spelt phonetically!). Some would say that is all you need to know - as long as you can order food, everything else should follow!!

... looked dirty and dusty. We saw all the school children waiting for trains and buses-they all wear uniforms and look very clean. All children go to school. The only true poverty we saw was outside the port, next to the dump, where there was a shanty town and people were garbage-picking. Back to Kandy: in the temple, we left our shoes with a shoe-keeper person. I went into the temple barefoot, like the locals; other tourists wore socks. Then we went through ...