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WOW
So I'm finally out of BKK well for the next 2 weeks anyways, The flight was good amazingly good considering that the plane was something right outa the 70s with rock hard seats and all the crazy style all that was missing was shag carpets.
Once arriving immigration procedure was surprisingly straight forward and it turns out the visa on arrival i had heard so much about was in fact just your standard stamp on ...
Negombo – Goodbye Sri Lanka
... Guest House and we booked into a very nice room with a balcony overlooking the Indian Ocean.
The tourist part of the town consists of one long street which is packed with restaurants, bars, accommodation, curio shops and café’s all of varying standard and quality. Curiously all the accommodation etc, thus tourists are in one place and all the ATM’s are miles away in another part of the town. We ...
Negombo
... his affections with various bowls of curry
All dayer by the pool in the $150 a night hotel (which we paid $3 to use)
Lowlights
Everywhere being closed on the first night, due to a public holiday. Wasn't exactly the party night I expected our first night to be!
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The longest day of my life
I experienced my single longest day of my entire life in Sri Lanka. Longer than that time we had a lock-in at my junior high and stayed up all night playing basketball and board games. Longer than the time I left Ketou, Benin at 4:00am to take a succession of rusting bush taxis accross three countries to get home in Accra, Ghana. The day I climbed Adam's Peak takes the cake, though no piece of cake it was.
After a few days exploring the picturesque Nuwar Eliya (via the ...
Visa Visa
... us to return on Friday morning with our passports. Feeling a little defeated we left the visa center. We decided we should see at-least a little bit of Colombo so we picked an area on the map, took a tuk-tuk there and started to walk around.
We walked through an area of green grass next to the ocean, called Galle Face Green, and through the old fort area. There we found a small cafe where we stopped for coffee and tea before continuing to walk around. We ...


