Category Archives: Sri Lanka

Our time in Eurpoe had come to an end and it was time to repack the backpacks and continue our adventure. It was really lovely having a base for a few months in England and we had recharged our travel batteries and were ready to go! We flew during the night to Dubai and thenContinue reading “Sri Lanka here we come! First stop Colombo.”

Well we had enjoyed our arrival in Colombo immensely and originally we had thought we would stay in Colombo while we got acclimatised but the friendliness of the local and the ease of speaking English gave us confidence and we decided to set off south towards the beaches. First stop was going to Galle butContinue reading “Train to Aluthgama”

We didn’t really have any plans today, other than spending some time at the beach but while eating breakfast the hostel owner Roshan came in and convinced us to go and see the Giant Buddha temple not too far away. So we jumped in his tuk tuk and off we went. We are so gladContinue reading “Aluthgama”

An easy start to the day today where we got to enjoy a traditional Sri Lankan breakfast consisting of roti, roti with egg and accompanied by Dahl and a coconut curry, all mild and then a couple of interesting sides (which I didn’t quite catch what they were). Our host even showed us how toContinue reading “Wandering around Galle”

Well we were quite lucky that we only decided to stay one night in Galle as our guest house owners seemed to think we wanted to be up at 5am with all the noise they were making! But that didn’t really bother us too much and after a few bananas purchased at a mobile tukContinue reading “On the road to Mirissa”

Up just before dawn today and greeted by our permanently happy host Indu, we set off in a tuk tuk to the harbour to go whale watching. We were escorted all the way to the boat and asked not to tell the other passengers the special price we had been given for the trip! ItContinue reading “Whale watching in Mirissa”

We were a little sad to be leaving Indu and Komodu’s amazing hospitality and company but we wanted to see a little more of the south coast before we started heading inland. We picked a beach called Marakolliya about 5km’s east of Tangalle. Our faithful neighboring tuk tuk driver Dumidu drove us the 10 kmsContinue reading “Marakolliya Beach”

Our destination this morning was Tissamaharama (Tissa for short) and it’s a town primarily used as a gateway to Yala National Park. We had heard that there would be plenty of drivers offering tours around Yala to see leopards and even as we were arriving in the town a guy got on the bus andContinue reading “Bundala National Park”

Tim had read that 20kms down the road from Tissa there was a town called Kataragama where there was a Buddhist temple that Sri Lankans went on Pilgrimage to. So we woke up in the morning and headed towards the bus station. On the way a bus going to Kataragama stopped on the side ofContinue reading “Kataragama”

There is so much that we want to do and see here in Sri Lanka that we decided to do just a one night quick stop in Uda Walawe to see the elephants. The distances we are travelling between places is fairly short and the buses although full are pretty easy to navigate so weContinue reading “Elephants in Uda Walawe”