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Elephants & Flim Flams
Next day, we get a taxi back to Colombo to get a train up north to Kandy. It was pretty painless getting the tickets (2nd class, £1.20, 4.5 hours) and finding the platform. There were already quite a few people waiting on the platform and we realised straight away that there is no correlation between tickets sold and seats available and with a 4 …
Kandy
Happy Halloween and Feliz Dia de los Muertos! Kandy is a lovely town in the hill country. I stayed at Sharon Inn, an incredible home with attached rooms for rent, on top of a hill looking down into Kandy. The owners are a German-Sri Lankan couple. The first day I walked around town visiting the Buddhist devales, which are places of worship. The …
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Traveling instead of blogging
... met by a driver arranged through our B&B, Colombo Haven. The driver had a little difficulty finding the B&B because it is a house located down a long, narrow drive from the main Galle Road. Colombo Haven is a great place to stay. The owners, John and Shyamali, go out of their way to meet the needs of their guests. Shyamali even walked us to an ATM and then a restaurant the first night. The next day John put us on a tuk-tuk tour ...
Arugam Bay, Tissa and Ella
... picked up at 5am and quickly woke up as we rattled about in the back of the 4X4 as the driver, who was clearly in a hurry, sped us to the national park along some pretty minor and potholey roads.We got into the park and started our safari just as the sun ...
Golden Temple at Dambulla and Kandy
... from Buddha’s funeral pyre and has been enshrined in a series of caskets. During the Kandy Festival the tooth is brought out and paraded on the back of an elephant in the parade. It is thought that the actual relic is no longer brought out particularly since the Tamil threat. This threat became very real when there was a suicide bomb attack at the temple in 1998. Luckily the old part of the temple was undamaged.
The temple was covered in lights ...


