Category Archives: Sri Lanka

We were heading into the hill country to Haputale today. We started off with a hearty breakfast at our guesthouse and then caught our first bus to Wellawaya where we had a little wait for our next bus. Here we came across some enterprising tuk tuk drivers who accost you and tell you incorrect busContinue reading “Haputale “

After being stuck in due to the weather yesterday afternoon we were keen to get going this morning but awoke to gale force winds and a fair bit of cloud. Still the wind looked like it was lessening by the minute and it wasn’t raining so we set off to find some delicious bananas forContinue reading “Walking Around Tea Plantations at Lipton Seat”

Our new guest house was perched on a hill with uninterrupted views to the south coast. Unfortunately we didn’t see the view at all on the first day. However when we woke early the next day it was glorious. So we sat out on the veranda and enjoyed our breakfast with an amazing view. IContinue reading “Newara Eliya”

We had decided to cut short our stay in Nuwara Eliya as we felt that while beautiful we had seen enough of the tea plantations and walking around them wasn’t brilliant with the threat of a huge thunderstorm over our heads all the time. So it was a continuation of our train journey to KandyContinue reading “Train to Kandy “

We were going on a little jaunt today with Herath our guest house owner in his tuk tuk, to look at some of the temples in and around Kandy. The trip out took about an hour but it was great being chauffeured around looking out at all the action. Kandy only has about 100,000 peopleContinue reading “Temple touring around Kandy”

We were on our way to Sigiriya today but we were going to try and be clever and stop off at Dambulla on the way to see some caves. There seem to be buses going everywhere here and as long as you are not in a rush it’s no problem and sure enough in aContinue reading “Temple Caves and Rock Climbing”

Heights, humidity and hornets. Not exactly my favourite type of day but to be fair we had to climb Sigiriya rock as we were here in Sri Lanka and in order to avoid the humidity we started as early as we could and we were passing through the gates of the place as soon asContinue reading “Sigiriya Rock”

This was our first forage into the Tamil area of Sri Lanka and we certainly weren’t expecting any trouble but were intrigued as to what we would find. Unfortunately we probably weren’t here for long enough to experience any real differences, from the outset everyone was just as friendly and welcoming and the food wasContinue reading “Swim time at Trincomalee”

It was a stinking hot day for our journey to the ancient capital city of Anuradhapura and by the time we arrived the weather apps were saying that it was 39 degrees! I don’t know if that knowledge made us feel better or worse but the humidity was high and there was an ominous feelingContinue reading “The Ancient City of Anuradhapura “