Windmill Beach Hotel Negombo

... and urge government to view Sri Lanka's ethnic strife in the context of history and not through the telescope of terrorism. We have also agitated against state terrorism in the so-called war against terror, and made no secret of our horror that Sri Lanka is the only country in the world routinely to bomb its own citizens. For these views we have been labelled traitors; and if this be treachery, we wear that label proudly. Many people suspect that the ...

... are sitting. Our guide mentioned when we were at the top about a young SL guy who recently fell off and got killed after sitting on the top of the rock drinking arrack which is not a good combination. Wewurukannala at Dickwella At Dickwella, SL's largest seated Buddha is located, which is 50m high and was constructed in the 1960s. You can walk up inside through lots of rooms which feature a cartoon strip of Buddhist life which is used ...

... 5 and dinner only $1.50. Surfboard rental for a day was actually more than a nights stay! Big bottle beer was only $1.50 (dangerous) and I happened to run into the nices, craziest group of people I have ever met in my life! We spent 10 days surfing, drinking, blowing stuff up with dynomite and generally running amock in town. Plus I made lots of friends to visit over the rest of my trip. Oh, and the motorbike trip was the highlight. 8 ...

... which exploded and killed one student but well away from where we were; it didn't even make the front page. We never felt the slightest apprehension or tension but much sympathy for hoteliers struggling to keep afloat during a civil war and on the coast after the devastation of the Tsunami. The coast is over eight hundred miles long with many sandy beaches and small, irregular lagoons; lots of them are on the east coast where this Bush clone of a President thinks he won the war last ...

... Waking up to the call of prayer and the sound of drums, surrounded by mosquito netting in Kandy - very surreal and far from home * Climbing the ancient rock at Sigiriya to stand on top of the ruined monastery from the 5th century - the monkeys, the view * The Buddhist Temple of the Tooth - that's right, a temple... for a tooth. * Staying in the beach town of Galle where the tsunami hit 2 years ago - the beach, broken coral, being the only ...

... is suddenly 14 hours long - and during the night. We don't get a hotel from the airline however as we had already chosen for a long stopover ourselves, which is a royal pain in the ass. It gets worse though! We poke around the internet a bit and find out why the night flights have been cancelled: it turns out the Tamil Tigers have been *bombing* the military base next to the civilian airport a few months ago, and have been *shooting at planes* a few times. For the ...

... in the town of Nuwara Eliya, an old British colonial hill station. It was oh-so-British, the architecture & street names, the golf course, the hotels, some of the houses, but in amongst it all, are the locals in their normal houses, doing their daily business, a real strange ...

... I collected a hotel voucher and then you proceed to the stop over counter. I stayed at the Blue Oceanic hotel in Negombo. 12 km from the airport, 40 km north of Colombo city. I had already checked out the hotel on the net and was disappointed when I learned it was not near the city, but in a touristy beach area. My ...

... Each person is a moral agent and is responsible. Metti: Christian women enjoy their body less than the Hindu counterparts. Pushpa: liberal feminism does not seem to negate the body. Astrid: cautioned that she is not special and that there are many women who may not be as articulate but are just as strong and are finding their space. Workshop B 11.30am Almas Emmaneul, Van Lizar aung and Kristine Meneses. Visit: Buddhist Temple and Aloysius Pieris 2.30pm

... veranda, drinking sri lankan beer, listening to the storm, the sea and Bob Marley. an excellent way to start my trip. Was also a strike of luck that i found such a hardened traveller to give me lots of tips and advice. The second day i went into Negombo with Sujje, my driver, and he took me to a fish market. it reeked! seriously! i was trying so hard not to heave that my eyes watered and i found myself hanging my head out of the tuk tuk to the direction of the road to try an inhale ...