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Travel Blogs from Nuwara Eliya
Little to see in Toy Town
... plates comes out sizzling and then we and the rest of the cafe cough for the next twenty minutes, unable to breath through the spicy meat juices and smells! Great stuff!! We waddle home stuffed
The area is full of tea plantations, long walks and on a holiday budget you would keep yourself busy, we were just happy to eat tasty food, celebrate an Easter together and wait patiently for hopefully some good news from the visa ...
Traveling instead of blogging
Sometimes travel gets in the way of travel blogging.
I'll backfill some of our adventures later, but I want to update you, dear reader, on what we’ve been doing since I last posted. We’ve been kept busy, mostly in a good way.
In brief: We landed in Colombo (actually the international airport some distance outside the city) on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 5 and getting a $25 visa-on-entry (dollars accepted), ...
Making plans
... was along the same lines as the tour we had originally tried to book. Searching the guidebook came up with little more than tea factoriesand we needed to decide the plan for the next few days, so after a decent nights sleep, and feeling a lot better we ventured into town.
Walking the 3km's down to the centre in the rain was actually quite refreshing as it was reasonably warm and there was no sign of tourists.
The town offers ...
Kandy, Kandy...I cant let u go!!!!
... travel, we both felt like we could sleep for days before we had any interest in getting up again. We did eventually get up, and when we did we were hungry!
Our first experience of Kandy was interesting. It’s quite a busy little city, with plenty of Sri Lankan men who don’t mind a bit of white eye candy to look at, as my lovely wife found out time and time again. Nothing against the Sri Lankans though, they must have great taste in woman, ...
Nuwara Eliya
... set the table outside our room for us and served a huge delicious feast. We had homemade vegetable soup that was extremely tasty; followed by a gigantic platter of rice that Paul did his best to polish off; chicken curry, daal, coconut sambal, curried green beans and poppadoms. All of it was tasty- especially the chicken. Then, for dessert, we were given a dish that had caramelised sweet grains inside (I don’t remember the name of the grain but I ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free parking
- Kids activities or Babysitting