Turtle Bay
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26.12.04
... I end up having a few drinks with the staff from the Hotel Harmony which was really good fun, dancing the night away and I was delighted the next day to head out swimming with Fasloon. I hadn’t been brave enough to head into the sea on my own, and as he was going for a ‘sea bath’ I asked if I could join him and I’m so glad that I did. The waves were so powerful that as soon as we headed in I was caught up in a wave, being swept away but he caught me ...
Een mooie afsluiter van onze reis!
... meer te groeien... en hier konden we mooi van profiteren! Men ziet namelijk dat er flink geld te verdienen valt in de toeristensector en zodoende zijn er veel mensen die zelf een guesthouse gaan beginnen. Maar omdat ze nog niet in een reisgids staan betekent dit de eerste jaren flink investeren: actief op zoek gaan naar gasten, splinternieuwe guesthouses en lage prijzen... totdat ook zij in de reisgids staan. Hierdoor hebben we al veel prima slaapplekken gehad voor een mooie ...
Musical Guesthouses
... Buddy). And the other advantage was that we were back in a family fold. Upstairs on the small house verandah that served as the "restaurant" were two tables set for guests (for the two guest rooms) and one guy did all the cooking while the kids did homework and watched TV in the adjacent family room. Although I liked the privacy of being “one guest among many” at Ganesh Garden, the personal touch of the smaller family guesthouses is something special. ...
Musings From Nancy's Hammock
... coloured feminine dresses and long black braids of the local women. I notice women looking out of huts, women carrying loads on their heads, women in the fields, women selling coconuts on the street, women carrying children. I struggle with the huge bill boards pasted along the highway containing images of white women or very pale skinned South Asian women selling products. I feel saddened that there is this pull to emulate the values of the West, as ...
In a prison. In Sri Lanka.....
... receive a food packet at the end of the morning with a good supply of food for the month.
The next part of the day comes with a warning of complete randomness and surrealism!
So having wolfed down lunch because we were told we had to leave "now" for the prison (which turned out to be an hour), we again hopped into the boot of the jeep, not a mean feet in a sari! No-one seemed to care about us but were very vocal about their concern for the pots of curd (a ...
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Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking