Royal Lotus Polonnaruwa

... service de tuc tuc 500 roupies et pas plus, 700 si je suis tres satisfait de sa prestation. Ils voulaient quand meme me faire payer juste 2000 roupies pour le tuc tuc et 900 en plus pour le ticket en sachant que j'aurais pas pu rentrer sur le site archeologique... Prends donc le rickshaw jusqu'au musee ou j'achete mon ticket 25 dollars encore les salauds, puis visite le musee tres interessant ma foi. En sortant je dis a mon chauffeur de regarder a quoi ressemble un vrai ...

... told us and wandered around with the lonely planet. <br><br>We saw many stupas, ruins of palaces, lotus pools and temples where you had to remove your hats and shoes and not take photos with your back to any buddhas.<br>The best place was Gal Vahara where there were 4 seperate buddhas all cut out of the same piece of rock. One of the Buddhas is 14m in length - was really impressive. A lot of the ruins ...

... sense to move on in this way. When I arrived, I decided that I would take a guide here.<br><br>Famous for its 5th century planning, architecture, garden designs, engineering, hydraulics and art, it also looks impressive from a distance! A huge, flat-topped rock formation rises up, independent of its surroundings, like a colossal, huge, sentinel. It&#8217;s supposed to have a palace and garden on top, while the army supported the king with might from below. Present ...

... the famous chariots were all locked up. The inside was pretty much a typical temple. There were the usual offerings of fruit and porridge that townspeople come and drop off for the monks. We had arrived in time to see a monk chant a bit with some of the locals as they went around to some of the prayers spots inside the temple. There was one really cool alter that was a replica of the planets. The main draw, though, are the huge chariots that have all kinds ...

... indeed done us proud and the four of us tucked into another wonderful Sri Lankan meal - the highlight was the deep-fried flower petals. If you finished a bowl they'd refill it unless you said you were done. I said that everything was mild so they brought out some coconut sambol - coconut laced with chilli, lime and spice.....yum. Mix it in with a mild curry to heat things up. Had a couple of beers (3 Coins ok, Lion nicer, Irish dark nice - same price, double ...

... and Obama had 3 electoral votes and McCain had I think 8. My heart sank! Of course I know it's a long process and there were 48 more states to poll (ha!), but I still didn't like the fact that he was losing...at all. Obama quickly started winning states and the tears started rolling down my face. The tv in the guesthouse had two stations, HBO and Sky News, a British news station. They covered the polling ...

... locals as the destination sign was completely in Sinhala. Thankfully it was the right bus and even though it was the lowest class of bus it was in my opinion slightly better than the one we took from Negombo. It was hideously overcrowded though, especially at one stage when we picked up about 50 schoolgirls on their way home. We also needed to stop at a checkpoint for a bag search and someone from the army joined the bus for about 10km's ...

... egg-yoke yellow chair ever designed. We literally were only an astrologer and a cookery segment away from launching our own Breakfast Show! After a little bit of bemused trepidation the kids took to the idea and before you could say "Time now for this week's makeover....", they were poised and enunciating perfectly to camera (and not a diva strop between them) By the end of the second full week, they had amassed enough skills to script a full tv report about their school and life ...

... curto safari de jipe (literalmente um Jeep, com umas boas décadas de uso) na Reserva Natural de Kaudulla, que acabou por ser o ponto alto da nossa estadia aqui. Vimos bastantes animais, incluindo 2 manadas de elefantes selvagens. As ruínas da antiga cidade de Polonnaruwa, que datam do Sec. X, também são bastante interessantes e valem a pena visitar. Tinhamos bastante curiosidade em ver as estátuas de Buda talhadas na rocha que lá existem, e que apesar de ...

... takze jsme museli vysplhat asi milion schodu v asi milionech stupnich, parada. Ovsem stalo to za to, je to krasna stavba plna ruznych soch Budhy a strop i steny jsou doslova pokryte puvodnimi malbami ruznych vyjevu z Budhova zivota. V prubehu prohlidky vypadla elektrina (coz je v Indii a na Sri Lance na dennim poradku), takze jsme si chvili mysleli, ze z Dambully nic neuvidime, prece jenom jsou to jeskyne, ale nastesti to zase asi za ctvrt hodiny ...