Colombo Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Left UCSC around 06.40 and reached Sigiriya Hotel around 12.30. Picked up few staff members on the Kandy road and stopped at Ambepussa for tea/breakfast and travelled via Kurunegala.

Last week I was pre-occupied with Simon's impending visit to Colombo. It was quite surreal to come back from the office on Friday afternoon to find him asleep in my apartment. After an eleven hour flight and a couple of hours sleep he was ready to hit the town and I took him on his first trip in a tuc-tuc to the Gallery Café for dinner. The only...

We had to be up early to have brekky so we could leave by 7 to make the short trip to the train station. The train arrived on time and we got our seats and were on our way just after 7.30am to Colombo. Its quite a pretty train ride - most of the way it hugs the coast and you can see the ocean, the fishermen and their boats. This part was also af...

Cestovani...lekce cislo dve. Budika sme si naridili raci na pet tricet. Bus na letiste ma odjizdet v pul sedmy.Tak abysme stihli kafe a nemuseli se honit. Olina vcera zasla na nadrazi presne zjistit vodkad ten autobus vodjizdi a pri tej prilezitosti koupila listky. Babka v satku za vokynkem ji jeste zduraznovala, ze musime bejt na letisti tri ho...

Before saying our final goodbye to the subcontinent, we had a day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Thanks to the simmering relationship with the Tamil Tigers, our "walking tour" of the city was cut short by soldiers in WW1 style sandbag bunkers ushering us away from any vaguely interesting looking government or highrise building. So instead, we decided to...

After crying about luggage woes at the Sri Lankan Airlines counter (too much, too heavy, excess baggage fees of $10, the broken ATM), sorting everything out, drinking 2 chai and standing in Customs behind an Englishman who's eyes resembled those of a dying, torchured fish because of all the hash he had smoked 30 minutes before, and standing in t...