Kandy Guest Houses

... like an old schoolteacher - telling me what I could and could not do in the room. By the way, as I was leaving one of the guest houses we were looking at, I ran into a French couple whom I had seen leaving my hotel in Negombo early this morning.  ...

... I have been 'going with the flow’ and picking up a novel here and there off the shelves of the various guest houses – a random collection of books in various languages that get left behind from the seasonal tourist waves.  This journey ...

... as had most of this beach town. What had once been a lively coastal resort had been turned into a ghost town. Only a handful of guest houses had been rebuilt!! We later realised that this would be the case for most of our trip along the coastal towns. ...

... an extortionate amount by sri lankan prices but arrived in one piece. it was hammering down with rain and we had to go to 2 guest houses before we could find somewhere to stay. Im now at the Blue Haven guest house in the hills with clouds outside my ...

... 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 ...

... . Actually, these were very pretty (but could have waited til later in the day). There were lots of avenues of palm trees, green houses full of orchids and trees full of sleeping and screeching bats! Next we went to the Temple of the Tooth, the temple ...

... ..It is humid and dry down on the coast. I shall now share with you my Adventures in Sri Lankan food. In Ella, the local guest houses are run by families. The cooking is done by the mother in her family kitchen. The garden vegies are organically grown in ...

... qualquer tipo de constrangimento quando chega o tempo de aliviar qualquer...stress. Descalço: em casa, nos templos, em algumas lojas, guest houses e hotéis. Não é uma questão de status. Talvez de conforto. E muita gente leva este conceito de ...

... 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 ...

... know it but there are bits and pieces that are very obvious. Women are still very oppressed, most of them don’t even leave houses after 6pm and I was starred at even more when I was out in the evenings. There’s no drinking culture. Bars only ...

... lake, colonial buildings and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. The Temple is important to Sri Lankan Buddhists as it houses a tooth of Buddha which, according to our guide book, was originally snatched from his funeral pyre (in India) before being ...

... 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 ...

... past officials whose questioning frowns spoke volumes. The area had changed since my last visit, that was certain. Of all the guest houses listed in our guide book, there were only two that were still operational. The others were either closed down, ...