Unawatuna Beach Bungalow Hotel
Travel Blogs from Unawatuna
Unawatuna for Lunch
This place has got to be the worst place for lunch, so we had a quick drink, used their conveniences and hit the road :-)
A thousand words
There have been far too many exceptional moments during this trip to pick a favorite in any category. The Singhalese people were happy and smiling, liked Americans, respected grandmothers and helped Carmen and I in any way they could. They were eager to share their remarkable country and heritage and proud of the variety that is within this one full-of-wonders island. A picture says a thousand words so I will attach several to this ...
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... to everything else that is available.Here once again days while away and I sit in silence reading and taking in the sunsets until I spy Gary an englishman from Jersey walking down the beach-Ive met him in Unawatuna and tells me that Jack-the cool girl who helped me initially on the Colombo bus- and her father are coming here-he is here to watch England play cricket as it seems are alot of englishmen.They ae going to be in Mirissa for a couple of days and he tells me he ...
Enjoying exploring on our own
... me and often disgust me with their crass come-ons for tourists. This one was no different, although a stop at the folk museum in Koggala was quite interesting because it is also the childhood home and burial site of leading Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe. Wickramasinghe was born in the house at the site, lived in the simple traditional house all his life and stipulated that he be buried in a simple grave next to it. I for one admire that sort of sense of place.
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Unawatuna
... places end up falling short. On this occasion we hit the jackpot!! But more on that in a minute. We wanted to get out of Unawatuna asap, and the owner of the guest house, who also did trips for tourists in his minivan, offered to take us. More expensive than the bus, but we wanted to see the 'stick fisherman' on the way, and it would have been difficult if we'd have gone by bus. For hundreds of years, the fishermen around Ahangama on the southern tip of Sri Lanka ...