The River House Bentota

... moon – a Poya day. There is a Poya holiday every month – well sometimes more than one - but this one calls to mind the time when Buddha made a recommendation to a group of villagers to stitch their robes in the same pattern as that used to separate paddy beds in the fields; this festival is called Binara. On this day Buddhist monks take time for a retreat from the outside world and everybody else takes the day off.

This week ...

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If you are stay at royal plam hotel or near to that area, visit freedom jewellers and see the diference.
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Quite an interesting journey to Bentota. We stopped in Galle to see the fort, at Hidakkuwa to see the beach, at a natural moonstone mine to get talked into buying some jewellery and at a turtle hatchery. I think we avoided the rest of the tourist traps! In places the journey was a bit sad. We went through areas that had been badly hit by the tsunami. And the turtle hatchery even had stories of how ...

... fort, which is like a little town, a local started telling us about the history and how the fort is the most exclusive place to live in Galle. We suspected he wanted cash but as it turned out he directed us to a nice hotel where he bid us goodbye and turned down the tip we offered him. What a nice man. After staying in the bar of the swanky hotel for most of the afternoon we Tuk Tuk'ed back (great way to travel), caught up with the others and had a final drink before bed. After ...

... and after only a few hours in the company of this engaging, knowledgeable, and exceedingly helpful character it was already clear this luxury is well worth the additional expenditure. Driving southbound down the main coastal road it took 2 hours to reach Bentota and the hotel Serendib, designed by one of the 20th centuries foremost Asian architects, Geoffrey Bawa. With the arrival of package tourism in the 1960's, Bawa ...

... for ages but not to long at both the begining and end of the day. By way of a celebration I decided to track down Molly Irish Pub after getting that precious visa at last. After a lot of walking and being stopped asked lots of irrelevant and intrusive questions on more than one occassion by stiff lipped coppers I found the place. It looked like any other of the office blocks except they had the odd irish squiggle on the window. It contains 345 ...

... is very nice, sure. But beyond a point.. umm. In the evening , we go for a long walk along the coast to the Buddha temple on the hill, which marks the end of Unawatuna. Words are not enough to describe the view from this vantage point. The sunset is out of the world. What a way to end the year!! Later in the evening, which was New Year 's Eve, we head back to Vimal's again. Sit at a table right on the beach ...

... half way to her mouth, about to take a sumptuous bite, "You know Luc, to be a Buddhist you just need to do good things, you don't need to go to the temple and stuff. I think you may be a Buddhist already, you just don't know it" I stopped eating, thought deeply looking off into the darkness for a second, "Nahh, still feel Athiest I think" I said. We both laughed and kept eating. -- Colombo Affan dropped me off at Wajira's brother's, 2 story, open concept condo in a prestegious ...