Ketha Colombo

Today, I'm off to Sri Lanka and I will have to take 2 different flights as I have a connection in Chennai. I wanted to get the public transport as taxi to the airport where extortionate, all proportion kept off course. It turned out there was a bus going to airport from the station only 5mins away which was perfect.

The first flight wen...

Ive spent a day in Colombo before my next flight out although I have mixed feelings about the place.

It is the Poya Festival (or Full Moon Festival) and in contrast to the island full moon raves in Thailand, it is taken very religiously here. No entertainment or alcohol on the day, and the Buddhists visit the temples with flower offerin...

I left Boynton Beach on Friday, May 1, 2009, 11:45 a.m. I was majorly hassled to go through Continental Air's eCheck-in which only provides eticket terminals for economy passenger check in and very few customer service workers. The customer service workers had, as their priority, working with first and business class customers. The one staff ass...

After a couple of days relaxing,emailing,doing laundry,etc., in Bangkok, I moved on to Sri Lanka.I arrived late night so I had previously booked my first night at a guest house in Negombo, a beach reort area near the airport north of the capital of Colombo.I wasn't quite sure what Sri Lanka would be like but had done a lot of reading and browsin...

Well, after waiting around forever, I got on the Sri Lankin Air flight to their capital city Colombo. The first few minutes of the flight were cool, we flew over the desert that I didn't get to see, and some neat mountain ranges in Oman. I had a little Sri Lankin Kid sitting next to me during the flight that couldn't sit still, and the only musi...

Sri Lanka (from the Sanskrit श्री लंका “Venerable Island”), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ; known as Ceylon before 1972 and as Taprobane in ancient times, is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres (19.3 mi) off the southern coast of Indi...

I was a bit surprised at how underdevelopped the country is when I first arrived. Though I saw a McDonald's on the bus ride from Colombo to Kandy and a small KFC in Kandy; there were no other signs of the western world until I arrived here in Colombo. Here, there is a Hilton Hotel, Pizza Hut, Domino's, DeliFrance, McDo, KFC, think that's it. The...

Ronalli came down yesterday, she got everything done in the day so headed off last night, they are long days for her when she comes as she leaves her house at 4am and usually wouldn't get back till after midnight. But it was good to see her! Today a new child started in preschool. She comes from a family where her dad uses drugs and physically a...

Arrived in Colombo on Monday 23rd April 2007, not really knowing what to expect. The country has been at Civil War for 20 years now with the Tamil Tigers, & although an official ceasefire occurred in 2004, in the last 6 months the violence has increased again - with nearly 5000 deaths. The airport was bombed by a home made plane the day befo...

Sri Lanka...Ceylon...Taprobane...Serendip.. .Pearl of the Indian Ocean -- all synonyms for the same magical tropical isle.

The Sri Lankan tourist board describes Sri Lanka as "A Land Like No Other". I think its a terrific and very apt slogan, for there's no other place I know of that offers this admixture of the sea, wonderful beaches, ...