Guest Houses Colombo

... to describe it's so nice.  It's more impressive than something off "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"!  Swimming pool, guest houses, vaulted ceilings, two kitchens, amazing architecture and a huge collection of art.  Their cook prepares the ...

... in Sri Lanka. For $10, you can get a very clean night's stay (translation - no cockroaches or rats). We mostly stayed in "guest houses," which are where people have built on rooms to their own houses for the tourists. The other good reason to stay at a ...

... been rebuilt so that normal life can restart and the Charity we are working for, Adopt Sri Lanka have helped to rebuild 50+ Guest Houses along the south coast. We are currently staying in one such guesthouse, Blue Horizon, it was all but destroyed by ...

... money in Colombo. The place was absolutely deserted. We stayed here for 2 nights and we saw about 8 white people. The hotels and guest houses were empty and it was clear that tourism had been hit hard firstly due to the Tsunami and then due to the ...

... the major tourist sites.  It included the car and English-speaking driver who looked after his own needs, mid-range hotels and guest houses with daily breakfast and a drop off at the south-western beach of our choice on the ninth day.  There is ...

... me off. Kandy is very picturesque with a man made lake as the centrepiece, the town at one end and plenty of guest houses and temples dotted around the hillsides. I spent a couple of pleasant days wandering around botanical gardens and the little shops ...

... we were planning to spend on the beach!). Sure enough we arrive at Unawatuna on the south coast and find that all the guest houses and restaurants have cleared their premises of all stocks of beer incase the police come to check on them (it's something ...

... both laughed and kept eating. -- Colombo Affan dropped me off at Wajira's brother's, 2 story, open concept condo in a prestegious Colombo District. Wajira and his friend had been waiting for me in the living room where I staggered in lugging my ...

... . We spent the morning walking around the old dutch fort. That too was hit pretty hard by the tsunami. One of the court houses was completely destroyed. We met a little old man who was telling us about what happened the day the Tsunami hit. ...

Tangalla is another town very badly affected by the tsunami, but unlike the others we have visited not many of the guest houses have been rebuilt yet, so it's very quiet though the beach is beautiful! We arrived late last night after our trip to ...

... blue, but low cloud up the valley. He walks further past the racecourse, taking photos of colonial mansions, private residences and guest houses. Manages to get a photo down into the next valley, and turns back at a busy tee-intersection with a policeman ...

... house and found a huge group of sea urchins just hanging out at the waters edge. We were told that if we continued past the guest houses and went to the big resort we could see a 100 year old sea turtle. While I'm never a fan of feeing the ...

... . The one certain effect of the new president's policy to eradicate the LTTE is that he has emptied Sri Lanka's hotels and guest houses. We have been told that business people support this policy but oddly, not by those in the resorts. There are just ...

... us! We arrived at Unawatuna Bay around 5pm, and I looked on the Internet for place to stay – there were loads of guest houses and small hotels I wanted to wander around, but it was getting dark. Glenn was approached by the assistant manager of a ...

... the next days, we saw this guy many more times, usually making a nuisance of himself, trying to extract money from tourists and guest houses without doing anything useful. Later we had a nap in the cool air-conditioned rooms of our guest house.  It ...

Unawatuna beach is just 15 minutes by local bus from Galle. A busy bay with plenty of guest houses and restaurants and a beautiful calm crystal clear sea to swim in. Not bad. The entire SW coast has a busy road and the train line running just behind the ...