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Traveler Sri Lanka & India 23/24
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- Dec 25, 2023, 10:44am
- ☁️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Sri Lanka Western Province Hekitta Old Negombo Canal 6.9847, 79.88386°59’5” N 79°53’2” E
Day 2
First Roadtrip in Sri Lanka
December 25, 2023 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
We had a driver booked for 10am. We were told there was no point in hanging around Colombo so we wanted to get going early (but not too early!). Our driver is Aruna, very nice chap with lots of tips for lots of things!

On our travels we pass the corn bbq’s. Mum had so wanted to try some in India so we weren’t going to miss our chance this time! The man sold boiled and bbq’d corn so we had some of each. Our driver also highly recommended we try the king coconut. Much sweeter than normal coconut. The monkeys were cute and kept their distance so nothing stolen today!Read more
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Traveler Sri Lanka & India 23/24
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- Dec 26, 2023, 3:44pm
- ☁️ 32 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Sri Lanka Western Province Hekitta Old Negombo Canal 6.9847, 79.88386°59’5” N 79°53’2” E
Day 3
Sigiriya
December 26, 2023 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Back home at 9am everyone was very hungry for breakfast and what a great feast it was! A combination of local foods and stuff we are more familiar with like toast and jam and fruit. We thought we would never be able to eat it all but we did! With nothing else planned for the day it was relaxing by the pool so we could recharge our batteries. Stanley managed to catch some fish (but put them back) and had to rescue a few frogs from the swimming pool!Read more
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Traveler Sri Lanka & India 23/24
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- Dec 26, 2023, 6:13pm
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Sri Lanka Western Province Hekitta Old Negombo Canal 6.9847, 79.88386°59’5” N 79°53’2” E
Day 3
Last Dinner in Sigiriya
December 26, 2023 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
For Dinner we went to a cute little restaurant on the lane where our Hotel was. They sold beer (though it wasn’t on the menu!) Mum & Dad were pleased! Lime juice for Stanley and Pineapple juice for Lara, freshly squeezed – delicious! With half a beer in Mum she proceeded to regale the family with tales of woe! There was the ghost train fire in the late 70’s where heaps of people died because they could never have found the way out! There was the roller coaster disaster on the gold coast. But the favourite was the school mate whose father built the Gooding family home and lived around the corner but it all went bad when Poppa took him to Court and whose son ended up being a mass murderer. Mum could not control her hysterical laughter when telling everyone what ‘crop dusting’ meant to airline hostesses! It took about 8 minutes for us to hear the answer as every time we got close Mum would start laughing again! In case you were wondering it is what they call it when hostesses fart when passing the seats of passengers they don’t like!

The meals were delicious! Our first kottu in Sri Lanka, we think we might have this for dinner every night in Sri Lanka!!Read more
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- Dec 27, 2023, 11:05am
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Sri Lanka Western Province Hekitta Old Negombo Canal 6.9847, 79.88386°59’5” N 79°53’2” E
Day 4
The Blue Train Kandy to Ella
December 27, 2023 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Today is all about the Blue Train. We have to leave at 7am to get to Kandy by 10am to meet the man for the tickets. The train is due to leave at 11am and it is a 7 hour journey. We paid USD143 for tickets that should cost about USD20 but Dad didn’t want to take any chances in missing this once in a lifetime!

Before we leave we have to return the volleyball to our new friends from Canada. Mum wrote a note so we could swap WhatsApp numbers. We wanted to get the contact for the Kerala houseboat but also we thought it might be great to swap travel stories 😊

We made it to Kandy station with 30 minutes to spare. We had Second class reserved tickets and seeing the mass pile up in third class and the race for seats in second class unreserved we were very happy with our choice! The Blue Train is of course Red today though! Ah well, we won’t be able to create that iconic picture quite so perfectly but I am sure it will be fine!

Gosh what an epic journey it was. We had rain and wind and sun and mist it was cold it was hot it was windows up it was windows down! The scenery was incredible - tea plantations, jungle, waterfalls and villages. We did manage to get some photos hanging out of the train which is the
epic shot. We had thought that we would be going over the 9 arch bridge but no that is on another line just after Ella, we will go and visit it tomorrow.Read more
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