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  • Joelle Fox
  • Rochelle Trethowen
  • Joelle Fox
  • Rochelle Trethowen

Sri Lanka

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  • Trip start
    July 1, 2025
    Sri Lanka

    Auckland international airport

    July 1, 2025 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Excitement has begun, ....nerve endings are tingling, five crowns is on the table, and we're doing our best to stay away from the bar cos it's only 8.23am 🤣😂
    Stay tuned for cool sights, new experiences, and journey with us, for our children we love and miss you already, next time it will be you and us together ❤️Read more

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    Still working on our selfies
    Start of the first leg....looking freshMade it to Hong Kong1Sooooo many planes, 500 loading gates 😳

    Hong Kong Airport

    July 1, 2025 in Hong Kong ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

    Massive airport... but only ranks 36th busiest in the world... talk about country kids in the city 🤣😂 even the airport impresses us 🤭.
    Once we arrive in Colombo, we will have been up for 27 hours, hoping to get some sleep on he next 5 hours of the leg.Read more

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    Columbo Airport

    July 2, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    28 hours later, I'm not sure I could have done much longer, first flight Fox was a bit ruff with gas pains, breaking out in a sweat popping pills left right and center. , got over that, then got a bleeding nose, recons he's going home via a boat. 🤣we're off to the hotel for a sleep, getting picked up at 10 for an 8hr car ride. Bring on the sights.Read more

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    Drivers English is okay...I think we just talk far to fast.
    Morning dip at 7.30Slight breeze, everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere, just not sure where 🤣

    Quick walk about Colombo

    July 2, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Very humid....I'll leave you to imagine curly hair and the humidity 🤯
    Very similar road rules to Bali....there is none 🤣
    Tuktuks everywhere, 33 degrees
    Now we're off to Aragan Bay, 7 hours with our driver, so looking forward to some sights.Read more

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    Package secured from the road side
    Nut, leaf, paste, and we're good to go, wrap it up, and start chewing.Felt like a dodgy drug deal 🤣Always keen 🤣In it goesNot very pretty, and tasted worse, lol, I think my meds over ruled it, so no buzz for me 🤔

    Canowin - water stop for the driver

    July 2, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    Well, when in Rome they say, # Sri Lanka, do as the locals do.
    So we did 😂 Betle Juice,
    Like eating a dry, bitter crunchy weetbix but far worse.
    The spitting was ruff, felt so wrong so imagine 2 white chick's try to hide on the side of the road, with a case of the giggles, spitting red juice waiting to see what sort of hit was gonna come, our driver thought we were a hoot, videoed us and told his mates, while laughing, we can't speak the language but didn't need to,
    Spent the next 30 minutes picking it out of our teeth.
    Woozy feeling but very short lived, hence why they chew it all day. 🤢    Read more

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    Cute little Quail eggsRoadside feed for lunchGotta try hard not to get splash back on these suckers 🤣😂Been warned not to pat the dogs. Apparently, most have rabiesTrying to capture yoked together, Buffalo, as they cross the road, they have the right of way.Seems a bit mean

    Lunch time

    July 2, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 34 °C

    We had Something that resembled a egg and potato turn over and a vegetable one, tasty enough going in will see if they rumble the tummy, we were put off the rice and curry as the flys looked like they were having a blast se we left it for them .
    This place is just off the motorway, as we head into more rural Sir Lanka.    Read more

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    Roccos

    July 2, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    We have arrived, so glad to be outta the car, don't be fooled somethings can lool amazing but still smell bad, ie our bathroom 🤣😂 just means more pool time 🫢

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    Saved by the Tuktuk, we were melting, back to the pool

    Hot so so hot

    July 3, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

    Long beach walk in the heat of the day with no sunscreen... not our smartest move, but we didn't have many clothes on so when we reached the Buddhist temple that had actual Buddhas in wrapoed in orange, we felt a bit exposed so didn't hang around long, luckily a Tuktuk found us and delivered us back to the pool, we were in full melt, lost a fair bit of gravey.
    Then, down the street for some shopping, cocktails, and dinner.
    Days seem to last a lot longer over here 🤣    Read more

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    Surfing at Peanut farm

    July 4, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Surf lessons at 0630 this morning, good fun, water in places it shouldn't be, stood up briefly, takes a few unused muscles to get the hang of it.
    Might take a few more seasons to become pro 🤔

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    Found a hat for 5 bucks..barging, not a lot of bargains to be had to be fair
    Sequence time1Fox laxing in the pool, he's getting the hang of this holiday lark 😂

    Pool side

    July 4, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

    Brekkie is done and dusted, off to buy a hat then we are pool side for a bit, the midday heat makes doing normal things rather hard, zaps the energy levels for sure.

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    1Gutter cleaning, only done half the job2Check out the loaded shotgun on this guy 😳Fox and Stu are checking out the wiringLol, this guy owned all the rice in the area, rich manThese small bananas are super tastyLol couldn't even wait to get out of the liquor shop 🤣

    Shopping trip and not a thing brought 🤣

    July 4, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Nice to have a walk, bloody hot, we were all dripping, so we had to have a few beersie stops along the way.
    Learned about the rice harvest, the locals thought we were there as business dealers cutting in on their rice deals. 🤭Read more

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    Monkey business

    July 5, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    Found a cute monkeys and had a cuddle
    No were off to find a couple of bits to take to our next stop, only 25 minutes up the road, but remote and no shops or east entertainment, so it will be sun lounging, swimming, yoga and eating oh and a bit of rum here and there 😉Read more

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    Potuvil

    July 5, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

    Well, even medicated, I struggled with the overwhelming bartering and bullying that goes on between stool holders. It's very cutthroat, and having 🍍 thrust in your face is some what provoking but punching an old lady with no teeth seemed a tad mean. So, I paid them 600LKR and scarpered 🤣😂Read more

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    Cool tree huts, very basic bit all one needs for a good time
    Hopefully, these chairs will hold up for the durationI'm not sure I like our new housemate. My only concern is that the Cobra snakes like to eat them??Happy 40th Lena 🥰Games, games, and just another one, aye

    Hilltop Cabannas

    July 5, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

    We are here for 4 nights. This morning, we did yoga by the beach, lost a bit more gravey 🥵 swam, drunk, ate, played some games, and swam some more and ate some more and drank some more 🤣😂 very nice relaxing day.
    Thanks, Lena, for a fab place to celebrate your birthday 🎂 x    Read more

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    Tamil temple, very old

    July 8, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    This is where the Tamil people pray, apparently it's very old. The tree was massive and hollow, looks like they burn incense and place offerings inside the tree.

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    Peanut harvesting time, the palms are for ground cover, the small bushes are the peanuts.
    Local rock quarry, government owned.20min from Aurgan Bay fruit is cheaper 250R for a coconut in Arugan, free here, tourist vs localHad to stop for a Papaya - 160r per kiloCrocodiles 🐊 havenRoad to Luckys placeHis house, lives with his Uncle and brothers, mother lives a few houses down with sisterLucky is 23 and is off to Kuwait to be a driver to earn $$ to buy 4 more tuktuksFarming here is spending the whole day roaming with your cows.There are so many birds that are very hard to capture on photo

    Umir, wetlands

    July 8, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    This is a smaller wet land, bigger one is just to the South.
    In the wet season, this fills up right to the top of the roadside.
    This area early evening and early morning is considered very dangerous. The elephants roam freely, and the locals are very wary and scared of them.
    At night the crocodiles sleep right by the road, so no one goes out at night there.
    There were so many birds that looked like our Koutuku/white heron.
    Our tuktuk driver told us his name was "today" butthen he shared that his real name from birth was "Relax"😂 he showed us around his village, we saw his sister who owns the shop, his brother owns a chicken farm, was keen to look but was worried we would never eat chicken again.
    Then bless him he brought us some corn, he was great, chatted the whole way and we understood 1/2 of it 🤣😂, we went far further than first negotiated and he was still only going to charge the agreed amount so he was very grateful when we gave him double.
    We went past an area that was being minded for gems, Ruby's, Diamond, etc. we got the impression that it was being done by monks, about 1000 of them, not allowed in, but no surprises there.    Read more

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    School

    July 8, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    School is the refuge during Tsunami and high water during the wet season.
    Picked up our Tuktuk drivers nephew, saved him a long walk home.
    He was only a little short guy, I honestly thought he was about 7 or 8, but he was 11 😳 such a cutie, though.Read more

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