Hotel Thilanka Kandy
No 03 Sangamitta Mawatha Kandy, 20000, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka: A Land like no Other. 7) Kandy
The Sinhalese name for this city is Maha Nuvara (Senkadagalapura), impossible for the British to pronounce so they just called it Kandy. Located in the forested foothills of the central mountains, about 1500 feet above sea level, Kandy is appealing to Sri Lankans as well as to visitors. The weather is cooler and less humid than on the coast, …
Spunky monkeys and other funny business
We were woken on our first morning in Kandy by the President. No, your eyes are not deceiving you, we really did say the President woke us up. We didn't know it was the President at first. We'd heard so much about him in the previous couple of weeks. Politics had dominated our trip with the impending general election. The country seemed divided, …
Kandy : Shops, Temples, Temples, Temples
Day 5 : Sunday 28th December 2008 Dambulla, Sri Lanka - Kandy A lovely Roti breakfast and we hit the road. It's shop day! First up was a furniture store - nothing much of interest - some nice elephant & turtle tables but nothing grabs us - we leave with a fridge magnet for Chris. The next stop was much better - a spice garden. We get a tour …
A Blond Moment in Sri Lanka
I am sitting in the Business Class Lounge in the Sri Lankan Airport enjoying the fastest free internet connection I have seen since SE Asia! It's the 15th (soon to be midnight and then the 16th)...two days later than my originally booked flight...hence the blond moment. My head splitting sinus infection that I picked up in India clouded my reading …
Snake oil salesman
0700 start, riding through villages waving at children on their way to school. After 15km we have a short but ferocious climb that sends us right down into bottom gear. We toil up hairpin bends sometimes overtaking trucks struggling up the same hill. Then down to the bottom only to toil up another hill. It is a morning of unrelenting slog up the …
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