Koggala Beach 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! <br>Rentre vers 23h30, lecture et dodo.<br>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 ...

... larger groups of graves, some with pictures. Monuments had been erected, with one I saw donated by a monk. Other shrines and monuments appeared intermittently on the other side of the road. A huge gap in the palm tree line uttered its own silence and the small waves lapped innocently onto the shore, And silence.<br><br>Ambalangoda<br><br>I arrived in the bustling town of Ambalangoda and made my way to the Ariyapala Mask Museum. The art of Sinhalese masks ...

... town below alone (though it's a pretty cool hotel to check out as well). Gem Shopping- I am not really a jewelry person but the rings in the shops in the fort are really fun and worth checking out. I went around to several different shops and picked out a few pieces until I met a local that explained all the shops in the fort have to bump up prices to make enough of a profit for when tourism is low. Our new friend sent us to a wholesale shop outside the fort ...

... care not to snap a shot when someone else pays though, or you may be also asked to contribute. 3 or 4 jumps per day, and the guy is making a good living by sri lankan standards, and down below there are many more youngsters swimming around, climbing the cliff and jumping from lesser heights for practice. It is highly possible that, the pool being so small and the jump out and down so far that there may be a high turnover in such an occupation, so when one goes, the ...

... celou dobu jsme jeli po pobrezi a kochali se vyhledem na more a rybarske vesnicky. Behem vsech cest, ktere jsme na Sri lance absolvovali autobusem, jsme nepotkali jedineho turistu. Je to skoda, zpusob cestovani je to dost nepohodlny, autobusy jsou vecne narvane a silnice ruzne kvality, ale aspon jsme se mohli vice seznamit s mistnimi obyvateli a jejich zvyky, no a navic je to mnohem levnejsi nez kterykoli jiny zpusob dopravy (skutecne za babku). Hned kdyz ...

... that gets entered into frequently "How are you like our country?" however when you get to the subject of the insurgency there seems to be a bit of blindspot and some rather unbuddhist thinking in evidence. Especially when you see the pluralist society up in the hills where Tamil tea workers and muslims, christians and buddhists all co-exist Anyhoo I'm in Galle at the moment -- after a long day coming down ...

... At Kosgata, I met a couple--tailors--whose business had foundered after the Tsunami; tourists were no longer coming to the beach resort. But it wasn't just the tsunami. Sri Lanka has the added factor of a quasi-war between the government Tamil Tigers. Depending on who is talking you get the following: "I am Tamil," a house servant at a guest house, who was certain to let me know her ethnic background with pride in the few English words ...

... 000 people and destroying the coastal communities... The war and the Tsunami puts a twist on visiting the small Island. We spent almost 3 weeks in Sri Lanka visiting the coast and the mountains. This entry focuses on the coastal regions. We spent our time at the beach snorkeling, swimming, surfing and talking with people about the tsunami... every person has a very close, personal story about the set of waves. Extremely sad. Enjoy the log....

... Punjab-roadways was bad, but these guy are worse, see they have busses with power and that can stop quickly so they make the most of it. They have no concept of passenger safety or comfort what so ever, I'm just glad we got there in 20 minutes. I went back to the Lodge, got showered and changed and headed out again. Slight problem though I left my keys in the room. I had to get Akheel to call Uma and find out where the spare was. I got a bus to take me most of the way to ...

... clock us and bow their heads in shame. Well, we'd had a free upgrade before with Virgin to the US, but that was just Premium Economy and about an inch extra legroom. This was something else. We'd been in living rooms with less legroom, the menu was a full dinner menu (at 10 in the morning!), iced towels, papers, you name it. The only downside was that the flight was only 45 minutes. So after a lamb curry for breakfast we landed on Sri Lankan soil at Bandaranaike International Airport ...