Sri Lanka

October - November 2024

Landscape? Little southern india
travel buddies? my mom :))
Mentally getting ready to leave asia and go back to the western world again. Living a bit in luxury, smoking too many cigarettes and seeing cool wildlife. Read more

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- Day 1–3
- October 10, 2024 - October 12, 2024
- 2 nights
- 🌧 27 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Sri Lanka Mankuliya 7.207973, 79.8328697°12’29” N 79°49’58” E
Negombo
Oct 10–12, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Welcome to Sri Lanka!!
The country (and the airport) feels tiny!! (because it is)
I meet Airii on the plane (she is sitting basically next to me??!!), we miss India already (you can get a girl out of India, but you cannot get India out of a girl).
I don't stay In Colombo, but instead chill 2 days in Negombo before I meet my mom. My hostel is flooded and I have to climb in through an obstacle course.Read more
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- Day 3–6
- October 12, 2024 - October 15, 2024
- 3 nights
- 🌧 28 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Sri Lanka Galle 6.032696, 80.216276°1’58” N 80°12’59” E
Galle
Oct 12–15, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
The first stop with my mom. We go to Galle, where the weather is honestly ehhh...
It has an old dutch Fort and we visit. My personal highlight: The japanese buddhist Peace Pagoda where we attend the evening chanting and I have a little chat with the monk. Some first Tuk Tuks rides for my mom and the visit of a Turtle sanctuary (later I find out, they are really not good - so whoever is reading this: Don't go to a turtle "sanctuary").Read more
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- Day 6–8
- October 15, 2024 - October 17, 2024
- 2 nights
- 🌬 28 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Sri Lanka Kamburugamuwa 5.945771, 80.4932255°56’45” N 80°29’36” E
Mirissa und Hiriketiya
Oct 15–17, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Mirissa is truly enjoyable! We have wine at the beach, we play cards and we go on a scooty roadtrip :))
There is very little on this planet that makes me feel as free as driving around with a powered two-wheeler.
Gooshh, I miss that coconut stalls on the side of the road.Read more
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- Day 8–10
- October 17, 2024 - October 19, 2024
- 2 nights
- ☀️ 33 °C
- Altitude: 77 m
- Sri Lanka Thimbolketiya 6.419267, 80.8129966°25’9” N 80°48’47” E
Udawalewe nationalpark
Oct 17–19, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
First Jungle stop!
It is hard to miss on the pictures that I am living a bit more luxury travel lifestyle than normally. But I enjoy the private room, pools, fancy dinners and most important: expensive safaries. Well one safary. We see big families of elephants, peacocks and crocodiles. This day satisfies my travel soul to the fullest. I also might be seriously in love with that Sri Lankan dinner.Read more
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- Day 10–13
- October 19, 2024 - October 22, 2024
- 3 nights
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 1,011 m
- Sri Lanka Kithal Ella 6.873606, 81.0489936°52’25” N 81°2’56” E
Ella
Oct 19–22, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
I am finally in the mountains again. Home...
We do a Sri Lankan Cooking class and make the best (I swear: the best!) coconut Rotis. Ella is full of touris (at the time I am writing this Ella is the name of my houseplant that lives in my car). But it is also full of beautiful nature (and puppies).Read more
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- Day 13–15
- October 22, 2024 - October 24, 2024
- 2 nights
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 1,881 m
- Sri Lanka Nuwara Eliya 6.973886, 80.7671276°58’26” N 80°46’2” E
Little England
Oct 22–24, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
On the very famous and very scenic and very instagrammable train we go from Ella to Nuwara Eliya (also Little England). We do a daytrip to multiple waterfalls and the touri-program tea plantation visit. Teenage me would have loved this even more.Read more
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- Day 15–17
- October 24, 2024 - October 26, 2024
- 2 nights
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Sri Lanka Colombo 6.938474, 79.8547226°56’19” N 79°51’17” E
Colombo
Oct 24–26, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Back to big city life! Museums, Tuk tuks in traffic, museums and views from towers.
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- Day 18–21
- October 27, 2024 - October 30, 2024
- 3 nights
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 276 m
- Sri Lanka Ehalagala 7.957436, 80.7602017°57’27” N 80°45’37” E
Sigiriya
Oct 27–30, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Back to the life of a solo backpacker and back to hostel life as well. And I already win the lottery with my first hostel. It is run by the cutest family. They show me the coolest places around, but I also visit the popular sights. And I might get the best dinner that I had in Sri Lanka so far.Read more
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- Day 19
- Monday, October 28, 2024
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 160 m
- Sri Lanka Bambaragaleyaya 7.863889, 80.6508337°51’50” N 80°39’3” E
Dambulla
October 28, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
A day of freedom again (I am scooter roadtripping again). I visit temples (I hate that I have to pay money for it??!!) and go to the gym with a very good view :))
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- Day 21–25
- October 30, 2024 - November 3, 2024
- 4 nights
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 504 m
- Sri Lanka Kandy 7.293121, 80.6350367°17’35” N 80°38’6” E
Kandy
Oct 30–Nov 3, 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Kandy - the place of the sacred tooth relict of buddha and a former Capital of Sri Lanka. And the place where I have to send my brain on vacation. It is hunted by the past and scared of the future. I am by myself and that exactly the best company for me now. I go and watch a comfortable movie, I have good food and I meditate. My body and my brain exist between universes, between time, between everything.

Busride
The raindrops pearl down from the mangoes on the street
Driving through so many little worlds
and getting just a glimpse into the life that's happening
the rain sprays the left side of my face
and I love it's feeling on my skin
It stays on my skin
Unlike the mangoes
And then there is this feeling again
looking out of this bus window it hits me
sometimes it does
And I realise where I am and what I am doing
How much my heart is feeling at home
At home in the streets that I see for the first time in my life
At home in the raindrops that pearls from the mangoes skin
and my skin as well
At home in my smile to this group of girls who come back from school
At home in their warm smile backRead more
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