The Kandy House

... donc je sais qu'il a essaye de m'entuber.. <br>Apres une heure dans ma chambre a lire ce que je pourrais faire ici, je me decide a bouger manger et visiter un peu.<br>Mais au bout de 100 m, il se met a tomber des cordes, bien sur c'est la mousson, bien joue encore sur ce coup la Ben...<br>La je rencontre un homme d'une cinquantaine d'annees, professeur de meditation boudhiste huste au dessus de la route, dans un temple et monastere. Il me dit de le ...

... Sri Lanka, for one 3 hour ride I paid about &euro;0,70! On the downside the buses are crowded, cramped and almost without any luggage space. In Anuradhapura (the first great capital of Sri Lanka) I visited a lot of (Unesco protected) ruins and temples the next day. Sri Lanka is almost king of overcharging foreigners and charges a hefty US$50 for the so-called Cultural Triangle Ticket (which entitles you to visit a few sites around the country). The first temple I visited was the ...

... with very plummy accents...some of their conversations had us smiling and trying not to laugh. Food was nice - devilled fish for me. The next stop after lunch were the Royal Botanical Gardens - Amaranga dropped us off and left us to our own devices. We wandered around - dwarfed in places by giant bamboo and by palm lined avenues, the flower gardens were a little devoid of colour, they had a pedestrian suspension bridge at one end, hundreds of fruit ...

... snorkelling for air through their remarkable versatile trunks. This is no mere spectator spectacle, however; these pachyderms are quite pally. First one then another would come wandering down for a chat. We got to know an old lady called Monica. She is quite partial to a whiff of Arack kindly supplied by one of the inevitable hangers-on by blowing into her trunk. She stopped and chatted for ages and positively insisted we hang on to her trunk. Over the course of the ...

So wigan rob and myself managed to get a tuk tuk to the train station, but in our haste to sample brekkie lanka style (waddy, dahl, and roti), we missed the train so decided on the bus to colombo so as to get a train to kandy. The bus dropped us away from the train station so another tuk tuk ride later and we were at the station, not without some handbags at 5 paces between mr tuk tuk and rob.....it was a beny hill type sketch minus the ...

Visiting the Veddas of Sri Lanka in 48 Hours<br><br>Despite the unrests in Sri Lanka, I had come here for the simple reason that I had not been here before. I like travelling. But the regular comfort, the private sand beach and the plentiful food only make me want to escape further. To stay in a luxury hotel drives me crazy; it is too tame. If I seek adventure of the type not encountered between bed sheets, I must get out of here. Quickly. I must break out from the Hotel ghetto ...

I found a nice guesthouse in Kandy to crash for a couple of days. Kandy is in "the hills" here so it's actually cooler than what I expected from Sri Lanka. The Indian consulate was closed today on account of some holiday I can't pronounce, so I wandered down into town to orient myself and take some pictures. Once I got to the foot of the hill where my guesthouse is, I was "befriended" by about 6 different people who all wanted to sell me something, take ...

... the excitement of the dancers, the beautiful elephants and the fire makes it a very impressive procession! I have been 3 nights so far and will go again tomorrow for the last and best evening! Well worth the hours of waiting every night and all the security checks I must go through! PINNEWALA THE ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE Left aligned photo tag: This big elephant orphanage was another reason why I came to Sri Lanka and my first ...

... to collect some supplies as from Friday the New Year Bank Holiday starts ( for 4 days ) and every thing is closed. When you live in a country that has tap water you can't drink its important to stock up. We also needed to buy a large bin as a water butt for MEF's oldest elephant Baby Nona who has been very frail recently ( Baby is thought to be the oldest captive elephant in Sri Lanka and was the elephant that featured with Brian Blessed in the 2 part "This Morning" special on ...

... a couple of days while the two boys waited for their mates to get here and to give me a chance to get my India visa sorted out and extend my Sri Lankan visa. We ended up in Colombo about 3 days ago, and tried every mid range hotel in Lonely Planet. Nothing. All hotels were fully booked. What the hell were we going to do. Our tuk tuk driver knew we were in a pickle, and very kindly suggested a 'good Sri Lankan hotel' after we had shrugged his suggestions off half a dozen times. **** it ...