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Negombo hmmmmm
After the high of seeing the blue whales we came back to earth with a thump when we finally made it to Negombo after a long train journey from Weligama via Colombo. Negombo is justifiably pretty much only on the Sri Lanka tourist trail because it is so close to the airport. The beach is pretty average after being in Mirissa for a couple of days, no …
Departure, at last . . .
11 March, 2010 - Departure date
In my (hopefully) waning moments at home before this trip, I thought I'd take the opportunity, while I still have free internet access, to fill you in on a little bit of background about Sri Lanka:
A general overview of the country can be found here. What the country has been most in the news for in …
A whole new thing
ugh....overnight flights are horrible, left Singapore airport at 1am, got to hotel in Sri Lanka at 3.30am local time, thankfully the hotel was nice (Silver Sands) and they don't mind about check-in at ungodly hours of the morning! Spent the day walking around Negombo, long sandy, but not all that clean beach, with pituresque fishing boats. The town …
Negombo
Spent farrrr too long here. It was really dull once Rebecca left. Had one day where I went into Colombo to pay the fine on my changed flights to Etihad. Did a bit of sight-seeing, but it bucketed it down with rain, so couldn't go to the places I'd planned.
One day I went into Negombo town itself. The fish market was amazing. Really massive …
Sun, Sand, and Sea: Sri Lanka
Leaving behind lots of fulfilling memories in Dharamsala, we headed off by taxi at 10 a.m. for the airport at Gaggal, twenty-three kilometres away. The one hour drive took us through some spectacular hilly forests, rural countryside and tiny villages. The airport security was tight as were met outside the airport by a soldier with sub-machine gun …


