The flight was very pleasant and the free internet at Colombo airport was welcome. For those with a laptop/PSP/whatever using the airport, don’t head for the internet cafe. You’ll have to pay 200 Rupees per hour to access there. Instead, walk towards gates 4-12 and spot the posh lounges on the right and left. All [...]

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Our last day in Sri Lanka and it was supposed to be a fairly busy one. We got up fairly early and packed before Nigel arrived with his tuk-tuk to drive us around the city for a few hours. First port of call was the post office to mail postcards and a package Hans had. [...]

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Our recommendation from the hotel manager was to get the bus to Colombo rather than the train. Instead of rushing to get the 10:00 (or was it 10:20? Opinions varied) train, we dawdled a little over breakfast and chatted for a while with a delightful Aussie called Dion. The aforementioned manager drove us into town [...]

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I’m not sure what woke us first – the alarm clock or the beep of the horn outside. True to his promise of “between 6:00 and 6:30″ our guide arrived at 6:15. Evil man. Our chariot was a large van with very soft suspension that felt like a bouncy castle mounted on a bath of [...]

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Yawning and stretching at 6am, we were fed by our kind hosts and bundled into the car for the long drive out to the Hill Country region. Our first stop was to pick up another passenger – a small Sri Lankan boy, one of Mala’s nephews. We said “hello” and then promptly fell asleep. Well, [...]

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A bit of a lie in this morning, as our train wasn’t until 11:05. Breakfast was superb again, and we made use of the best shower in South Asia before finishing out packing and walking to the station. However. We got there to find that the times we’d been given we spurious to say the [...]

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We were up at 7:30 to make sure we reached the dive centre in time, and enjoyed a rather delicious breakfast. Tea, toast, scrambled eggs and fresh fruit. A good start to the morning, and all for 300RP… or so we thought. It turns out the German Lanka had booked us in under a B&;amp;B [...]

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We had a good sleep at Mala and Gilbert’s before being stuffed with far too much food. They also have a dog who’s about as timid as timid can be. About a year old, and he won’t come near us unless we have food. Instead he’s content to poke his head into the bedorom and [...]

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Well, all our trips and flights are now booked up until early February. Everything is now paid for with the exception of the Bhutan trip and that’s going through as I type this. After a day spent sorting all this out, we returned to the hotel, gathered our bags and taxi’d to the airport. Our [...]

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