Sri Gemunu Beach Resort Unawatuna

... mon linge (ca yest il sent moins le moisi!) et boire un the en lisant la troisieme partie de Millenium. La internet, puis bang lassi (lassi+weed) au meme endroit que mon roti ce midi, puis vais aller manger au restau allonge sur mes coussins a boire des mojitos et finir ma weed avant de partir demain pour Negombo. Snif. Mercredi matin depart de mon avion a 7h15 pour l'Inde, donc petite nuit en perspective. Jsuis un peu vert de partir car il fait de plus en plus beau ...

... me rincer, et mange mon curry, pas tres bon mais pas cher du tout. Puis la pluie se remet a tomber, attendons une accalmie pour aller voir le temple au bout de la plage et escalader jusqu'a la dagoba. Bien sur il se remet a pleuvoir, prenons quelques photos et descendons par des rochers, escalade perilleuse surtout en tongs... Escaladons un mur et passons a travers le ...

... lieu de 300.
Visite en long en large et en travers cette ville qui necessiterait quelques renovations, mais bien sympa quand meme et surtout tres calme. Belle architecture coloniale, les styles se melangeant parfaitement. A la fin vais prendre une biere dans un hotel tres chic et tres bien retape, trop beau d'interieur avec vieux meubles, piscine, orchidees, la classe quoi. Parle un peu avec les hommes de menage, tres sympas.
Reviens a Unawatuna par bus local ...

... the area, first under the Dutch and then the English. There was recent history too. Hasantha could point out the places that were devastated by the 2004 tsunami, where estimates of the Sri Lankan death toll are as high as 70,000 people. Galle was hit hard, but the areas inside the ancient walled fort were very well protected and suffered almost no damage...the waves just washed around it and destroyed the city outside of the walls.

... hearts and lovely smiles. If the weather was kind to us we really would have been happy to spend our entire 6 days on the beach - that was the plan! Unfortunately our patience with the rain ran out after 3 days and this did not give us enough time to adapt our trip and experience the ancient and cultural side to Sri Lanka. This really would have made our trip more complete. Next exciting part of our journey is back into India and next stop Kerala..........!

... drive to their house, but was saved by the iron-like grip of Mrs. She reminded me of how STRONG Sri Lankans are. Given how manual and basic life is, there's wonderful confidence in children and grownups when it comes to things physical. I may not be a likely advocate for four-on-a-bike rides, but little children learn to balance, and more importantly to trust! at a very young age here. There were so many reminders of ...

... more beautiful people I met. After spending six weeks, I know it is a country I will return to again and again, to see friends, as well as to watch its development and progress.. which I pray happens sooner but I fear will happen later. Sri Lanka is a beautiful country, filled with truly beautiful people. But it is also a country steeped in a seemingly endless civil war, poverty, and slow development. Tourism is ...

... Anyway, it was taken away and brought back about 15 minutes later warm but I can't say we enjoyed it much. If you have to argue about your meal it rather spoils your mood. We understand that all the restaurants there are having a really tough time and probably can't even afford to have ingredients in ready, but we really feel they have to try to look after the customers they do get if they're to stand any chance of recovery. Things felt a bit better this morning ...

We had a fabulous couple of days in Tangalla, it really was a stunning beach, a busy little town, but hardly any other visitors at all, which is a crying shame. This morning we left Tangalla and took a bus to a town called Matara, which was about an hour away, once in Matara we changed buses and travelled a further hour along Sri Lankas south coast to the town of Unawatuna. The drive along the coast was both beautiful and upsetting, the beaches are the ...

TANGALLE Our first week in Colombo was spent helping the Singapore YMCA to implement a volunteer program to assist the Sri Lankan YMCAs in the eastern districts of the country. By the weekend, things had pretty well wrapped up, so we accepted the offer of a friend of a friend to take a break from Colombo to visit his current relief efforts in Tangalle. The six-hour bus ride to Tangalle was a real eye-opener. The road is a narrow, bumpy artery that stretches along the beautiful ...