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Nuwara Eliya, Horton Plains and World's End
... way the road was blocked with cars and trucks stopped. We asked the tuk tuk driver what was going on as we could see police up ahead. It had been raining heavily so assumed that there had been an accident. Turns out that two days before a land slide had blocked the road and the authorities weren't letting vehicles pass I case it slid again. We were told that the only way to get past (and to the trai station) was to walk the 500 m to the other side and get another tuk tuk. ...
Water Faults
... 1497;ת התייר 93;ת כי ממתקי 01; הורסי 01;
את השיני 97;ם ומקני 01; הרגלי תזונה שלילי 97;ם. או אז עברו ...
Thymeoff to be a Tourist
... specialty coffees, and lots of little boutique shops hidden behind the decaying Dutch colonial buildings, we could easily have spent a week in this enchanting UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ah, but the life of a traveller is just that - always on the lookout for an even more exotic location in which to revel. Continuing eastward, we stopped for a few days at the idyllic, crescent shaped Mirissa beach to do our duty - NOTHING but swim, sunbathe, ...
The Tooth Relic Temple
... try some of the tea. I had some difficulty swallowing the tea, as it's not really my cup of tea... :P
In Nuwara Eliya, a small village located at an altitude of 1900 metres, we had lunch at a lovely Indian restaurant. The meal was delicious and deliciously cheap.
After the meal, we drove all the way back to Kandy, where we visited the tooth relic temple. Before we were allowed to enter the premises, we had to pass through two ...
The Tour, Part 1: Kandy
... though was something else: about seven or eight men with long bull whips, which they wielded expertly to make them produce the typical gun like sound. As a reward the watching crowd threw coins into the street and two men with large knapsacks had been specifically tasked with collecting the coins.
Everything had been very well organized: just a few steps from where I was sitting, there was sort of checkpoint. Every person in the procession who was carrying a ...