Tangerine Beach Kalutara
Abrew Drive Waskaduwa Kalutara, Sri Lanka
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Udawalawe National Park and the City of Gems
... the way our driver stopped at two temples to offer prayer and as we waited for him I wondered if he might put in a prayer for a safe journey from me.
Eventually we made it Udawalawe a national park created after the construction of the huge reservoir on the Walawe River. The park is a great place to see wild elephants and it is thought that about 250 of them reside there. As we drove alongside the reservoir I spotted sea eagles and other water birds. Once with in the ...
Galle and the 2004 tsunami
... One was blind and another only had two well formed legs.
From here as we got closer to Galle we saw more and more ruins of houses destroyed in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. We stopped off at the Tsunami Memorial a huge statue of Buddha donated by the Japanese government. It struck me as deeply ironic that 7 years later they would have their own devastating tsunami. It has been built on the site of a huge mass grave believed to contain 800 ...
Ayurvedic Massage
... one and Andy in the other. It was a very oily experience and I was glad I hadn't worn a decent t-shirt. The oil is infused with herbs and we were tapped, kneaded and squeezed. It was quite a nice experience but they end up rubbing the oil into your hair and then putting a hot towel on your head at the end. We resembled a couple of Jeddais as we looked back ...
'Little England' - tea country
... the different trees and of course the hillsides of tea plantations. It looked incredibly hard work as the mainly women carried large white sacks on their back and plucked just the tip of the bush. These women are mainly Indian Tamils who are descendants of the workers sent from South India in the 19th and 20th centuries to work on the tea plantations. Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest tea producer and it isn’t until you watch the women picking ...
Visa Visa
... handed in all our documents. We were immediately told that we needed to go to the Indian Visa Center down the street. Frustrated that we had wasted our time, we started to walk in that direction. After we had walked a block in the heat we saw the tourist information office. We decided it would be a good idea for us to stop in and get a map and find out what there is to do in Colombo (for our time after we got the visas). While we were talking to the lady who worked ...



