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  Colombo, Sri Lanka
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

So we finally arrived in Sri Lanka, after another day spent travelling, from Mumbai to Chennai, arriving with just enough time to make the flight to Colombo.  But problems with our ticket, that we hadn't actually been assigned seats although we had paid for them, and the plane already full, resulted in being upgraded to Business Class.  Excellent, and a first for me and Mike.  The leg room is great, the food ok, but I have to say it wasn't service with a smile, in fact the stewardess was genarally pretty pissed off if you asked her for anything, so much for Sri Lanka airlines Business Class (although we couldn't help but notice how much more helpful she was to the other - more aptly placed passengers).

Shame we could only enjoy the luxury of in flight leg room for an hour or so, but we had arrived at our next destination, Sri Lanka.  Arriving in the evening, we opted to book a hotel room earlier in the day, so as to be sure of a place to stay on arrival.  The taxi was easy enough, and super helpful.  Lots of army and police presence on the way to the hotel, three stop and checks in the hour long journey into the city.  The hotel was nice, very comfy beds, soft pillows (two each), good TV reception, BBC world and news, and the cleanest bathroom we have seen on the trip (a seperate shower cubicule being a real luxury- rather than the wet room/toilet that you get in most places)....

The following day we headed to the Indian High Commision to get a transit visa so we can get back into India for a night to get our flight home.  After some tooing and froing (due to inaccurate information from our Tuk Tuk driver) we found the right place (the VFS) to apply for our visa.  All in all it didn't take very long, about 45mins wait and form filling.  Assuring them they could contact me on the number we had given them, we should expect a call on Monday (now Wednesday, and no call).  We decided to head straight out of Colombo to Kandy in the Hill country, as we will be spending the last night in Sri Lanka in Colombo for Mike's birthday on the 25th.  After assuring our Tuk Tuk driver we didn't want a tour, and getting ripped off for the cost of his services that morning we headed by bus to Kandy - 6 countries in and we still haven't found a Tuk Tuk driver we can trust!

Hope all is well back home,
Shelley and Mike
xxxx

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