Trans Asia Colombo
115 Sir Chittampalam A Gardiner Mawatha Colombo, 02, Sri Lanka
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Animal Safari
This was a day with a lot of driving, but some great animal adventures too. We left Unawatuna early, because Hasantha had some things he wanted to show us. First we stopped at a turtle hatchery along the coast, close to Galle. An original hatchery had been wiped out by the 2004 tsunami, but volunteers from England and Australia had remade the …
Sending Miles Back Home From Colombo
Our deal with our son was that he was willing to go anywhere and do anything as long as he was away from home for only two weeks. He was in a great hurry to get back to his job, his friends, his high school. (Uh huh.) He certainly met his part of the bargain, so this was the day we shipped him back to Los Angeles. (Although during the trip, …
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Arriving in Sri Lanka with a band of flying idiots
... with a van in Sri Lanka for about 25 dollars a day, but apparently times have changed since the publication of that book, and we would find that transportation through this country cost more than we could easily afford. The van from the airport was one you couldn’t have legally driven in the states, or in most other places in the world. The bench in the back was just that, a piece of wood with a thin layer of padding and a backrest of aluminum tubing holding a sagging ...
Christmas card making
... the design. By the end of the afternoon there was glitter everywhere, particularly as it was so humid.
I had an amazing time chatting to the girls and making cards, and it was lovely to be given a number of the cards back with handwritten message inside.
I handed over the large bag of stationery items that I had brought from home which were well received and will hopfully be put to good use. They do get quite a lot of visitors here, but from ...
Visa Visa
... to be two other backpackers in the same car as us and we were able to chat with them for part of the journey. They were from the Ukraine and had decided to hitchhike their way to and around south east asia. They had been traveling for about 5 months and shared some stories with us about different places they had been. We talked with them until we arrived at the stop for the airport where they left to continue on their way back home.
A couple hours after ...



