Packed and ready to go... 141 days
11. September 2024 in Australien ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
First stop Bali, then Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore then back to Bali
First stop. Beach and Bintangs
12. September 2024 in Indonesien ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Y bar and NRL Finals
15. September 2024 in Indonesien ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
C'mon Manly
Unexpected sleep over in KL
17. September 2024 in Malaysia ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Feels like proper travel starts today...look out Sri Lanka.
Passed My Sri Lankan TukTuk License
17. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Navigated a 1 hour Negombo to Colombo traffic without incident (just)
$4 Tallies and trainspotting
18. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
In Bentota. Our villa is 50m from the beach across the train line. Beers and trainspotting might be my new hobby
Covert beer
18. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
When your restaurant hasn't paid their liquour license. Hide it in a giant Lion cooler that you can't drink out of. For scale that's a 500ml can
Class M4 #746
18. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
My trainspotting has started
Traffic navigation 101
19. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
The buses are psycho, but it is the varied speed between cars, buses, scooters, trucks and bicycles that test your gross motor skills
School is in session
20. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Suspended in the first week and the principal and teacher want to quit
Reisender😂😝 who wouldnt want to get suspended with that view though. More time for the beach
Trainspotting continues
20. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Class S13 #969 and Class M7 #802
Sri Lanka test match
22. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Currently at the Sri Lanka vs New Zealand test match at Galle Cricket ground. Very weird as currently only foreigners are allowed in (for free) due to a nationwide curfew currently being imposed as aWeiterlesen
Sri Lanka Test Match Galle Cricket Club
22. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Got into the members club / grandstand. Too good. And they finally finished the curfew so the Sri Lankans could get into the ground and build the atmosphere. NZ needing 68 to win with 2 in the shed
Finally feels like travel
23. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Weligama. Glad to show the kids proper travel outside of tourist restaurants etc. Beer - $1.50. Dinner (kottu and hoppers - $1.50) and finally some surf...videos to follow. Loving the chaos but itWeiterlesen
Weligama Surf
24. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Some videos and pics from a full day at the beach. The kids were keen for a surf. Not a bad little break next to a small island about 200m from our accommodation. FYI the island has a villa on itWeiterlesen
More surf Videos
24. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Last night in Mirissa
27. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Sad to be leaving probably our best spot of the trip so far but hopefully on to better things tomorrow with a 2.5 hour drive to Udawalawe National Park for some elephant spotting (and hopefully more).Weiterlesen
Bit of rain
29. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
We have been so lucky with the weather. Dry 2.5 hour drive inland to our accommodation...10 mins later the skies opened. Early start in the morning for our safari with clear skies apart from about 20Weiterlesen
Udawalawe NP Safari
29. September 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
I can't say much more than what the photos already say. I think the kids really enjoyed their first safari. Elephants, spotted deer, 2 types of monkeys, mongoose, hornbills, crocodiles, 1 millionWeiterlesen
Hiriketiya (Hipster beach)
1. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Quite a nice little bay with reasonable surf but it felt a bit like it's more for the influenzas... a bit much for someone with grey in his beard. Which reminds me.... 2 twenty somethings from NZ atWeiterlesen
Tissa Lake
2. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Sensational hotel on Tissa Lake, our base for Yala National Park. Great pool, awesome dinner (finally some meat) and had the place almost to ourselves until sunset when a tour group rolled in.
Yala National Park
3. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 32 °C
Got very lucky today starting with a freak sighting of a sloth bear (only about 20 in the park) topped off by an even rarer, luckier sighting of a Leopard (only about 20 in the whole park). AlsoWeiterlesen
Elephant Highway B35
4. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Took a chance driving on the highway through Yala National Park (there is a history of elephants charging and pushing tuk tuks over). Feel like we got lucky to have a large bull blocking the road onlyWeiterlesen
More of my new hobby
5. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
This time Class S14 #982 and S14A #989 in Ella with tea plantation in the background. It also turns out that I am the family champion of tea picking...had the largest basket to fill but also theWeiterlesen
Trainspotter's Heaven
6. Oktober 2024 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
9 arch bridge today. Luck continues to be on our side again. With no planning we arrived at 9 arch bridge only waiting for 10mins for a train to pass. Decided to walk back to Ella via the train lineWeiterlesen