Hotel Sunset Beach Negombo
No. 5, Carron Place Negombo, Sri Lanka
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Day trip to our first stop in the cultural triangl
Thankfully sri lanka is a pretty small and compact country however the roads are pretty full and always going through small towns so never expect to be going over 30km/hr if your lucky day tripping under 100km is doable but will drain you a bit.
The ruins were amazing and i really enjoyed the day, however it was a long day we started early
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Arrival in Sri Lanka!
... s all in Sri Lankan so the photo ID is probably a library card and the paper in the folder doesn’t have anything to do with orphans. An old lady approaches and gives the spill that’s she is collecting money for an orphanage outside of Colombo. What she is doing in Negombo on a street corner is never explained. She produces a book with people’s names and the amount they’ve given just to show how legitimate the whole thing is. In both cases it’s ...
Heat and humidity!
... 8211; nutters! It was mentally hot wandering around this dirty, smelly little town and a crow poo-ed on me! It’s beyond a joke now! J Negombo is mainly Catholic and there are colourful shrines to all the saints on every street corner and some beautiful churches. We visit St Mary’s church, which has loads of colourful and quite graphic statues and carvings throughout the church – beautiful. Then we get a bit ...
Colombo & cricket - reloaded...
... br> What tuned out to be a rather boring game was made fun by the Lankan crowd which was one of the reasons we are here in the first place, when we went to the World Cup in the Caribbean we watched the SL crowd in awe of how much fun they were having even while being beaten by Australia. Both Scott and I commented that there was no way possible in Australia or the USA that a crowd of 35,000 would be having as much fun as this lot without alcohol.... I of course went home and ...
Final Stop in Sri Lanka
... heavy traffic, and I over-tipped the driver for the extra time taken, even though it was largely his fault not following our initial priorities. We were tired and had a beer at the pool bar while planning our last hours here. Also sampled the local whiskey, Arrack, distilled from the coconut. Nasty stuff, but we managed with the aid of the beer.
That evening was pizza night at Sana's restaurant, bar and pool hall. The individual pizzas ...



