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    • TravelerWeltreise
      12
      Day 9

      Sri Lanka Tag 9

      January 9, 2020 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      Heute sind wir gegen 6 Uhr aufgestanden und haben uns abreisefertig gemacht, da es für uns an einen 100km entfernten Strand in der Nähe von Trincomalee ging. Auf dem Weg dorthin kreuzte ein Elefant unseren Weg und wir wurden bei 2 von 4 Polizeikontrollpunkten angehalten. Bei beiden wollten die Beamten nur wissen wo es hin geht und woher wir kommen (Land). An der Unterkunft in Nilaveli angekommen durften wir unsere wunderschöne Strandhütte beziehen, welche nur etwa 100m vom Meer entfernt steht. Wir entschieden uns dafür eine Runde ins Meer zu gehen. Die Begeisterung für die schöne Natur Sri Lankas wird leider immer wieder durch den ganzen Plastikmüll, der überall zu finden ist, getrübt.
      Zur Mittagszeit schmissen wir das tuk tuk an und fuhren zu einem nahegelegenen Fisch und Curry Restaurant, welches bei TripAdvisor lediglich sehr gute Bewertungen erzielte. Dort angekommen gab es für mich Nudeln mit Gemüse und für Matthias einen großen Teller mit Seafood und Reis. Die Teller wurden leer geputzt, da es super geschmeckt hat. Als wir uns jedoch auf den Heimweg machten bemerkten wir, dass Matthias wohl das Seafood nicht ganz so gut bekommen ist. Seine Arme waren voll mit roten Punkten😁. Bei einem kurzen Stop im Hospital haben wir uns überlegt die Symptome selbst zu behandeln ☺️. Nach einem kurzen Besuch auf der Toilette 🤢 gab es einen Gläschen Rum und die Punkte wurden wieder weniger☺️. Nach dieser Tortur haben wir uns dann erstmal eine Kanne Tee am Strand gegönnt und den Sonnenuntergang genossen. Heute kugeln wir uns nicht ins Bett. Tag Ende.      Read more

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    • TravelerA&K Adventure 2019
      Day 79

      D77-79 Sri Lanka - Nilavelli

      September 21, 2019 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      So the past three days were big...get ready for this post, cos it’s going to be a whopper. Alright, not really: we’ve done nothing. It’s been pretty great.

      Well not nothing as such - we’ve swum, sunbathed, gone for long [romantic] walks on the beach, eaten food, played numerous rounds of monopoly cards, napped, read, listened to podcasts and music, and then done it all over again. For three days. I feel like we have spent two and half months travelling and are finally on holidays, and it’s just what we both need before reality strikes in a week’s time.

      Our three days in a nutshell:

      Day 1
      Kate got a thorn from a screw pine stuck in her foot, so while she sat on a rock I walked back to the villa to get tweezers and got sunburnt on one shoulder.
      We discovered Leo’s restaurant a bit further up the beach and it quickly became a favourite, having eaten most lunches (except for when we snacked on bananas) and all dinners there since. Leo’s is owned by a local man who is married to a French lady, and they have a little four year old boy who is the funniest kid ever.

      Day 2
      Ate a nice veggie curry at Leo’s for lunch, enjoyed a bit more beach time, had a group of stray dogs proudly run up to us and proceed to have sex next to my deck chair. The local groundskeeper came over and the posse ran on up the beach, stopping only for the occasional enthusiast hump.
      We returned to Leo’s for dinner (fish for me, calamari for Katey) then headed back to the dark beach for our 10 minute walk home. While watching an epic lightening storm out in the ocean, within minutes we heard barking. ‘Quick, turn your phone torch on,’ and low and behold, it was the hyper sexual dogs from earlier in the day, still going at it! It was like the Blair Witch project with us trying everything to deter the dogs from following us, lit by a shaky iPhone torch. Bark, growl, ‘throw some sand!’, ‘it’s not working, turn the light off and walk in the water’, ‘argh they’re coming!’, ‘grrrrrr, get outta here!’, bark, whimper, growl, hump...To be honest, the poor female was probably looking for someone to save her!
      We found the lights on the beach indicating we’d arrived at our villa. We beelined towards it with the dogs on tail. Luckily they saw another couple from the villa watching the storm and headed towards them, providing us with a break to head to our room. The poor couple behind us jumped up and headed quickly towards their villa, probably put out that their romantic night had been cut short! The electrical storm was the highlight here...

      Day 3
      Much the same as day 1. Again, a stray dog ran up to us, this time by himself. It was baking hot so he got on under Kate’s deck chair, dug a bit of a hole and stayed there. He followed us back to our villa, sat outside for about two hours then latched himself into the other couple. We call him Billy.

      Our beach journey of relaxation continues tomorrow when we head to Negumbo in preparation for our departure.      Read more

    • Operation Year of Freedom
      Day 21–25

      Nivalei Beach - Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

      August 19 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      Three nights turned into four here, and we could have easily made it a week.
      Such bliss to have a small verandah, a beach at the end of the lane, gourmet egg roti each morning and be visiting in mango season.
      Significant for : Mosques are not the only early morning broadcasters, with broadcasts from Nilaveli's Hindu temple.. over the road from our accomadatuon every morning from 6.00 am 🎊🫣      Read more

    • TravelerSri Lanka
      Day 16

      Uppuveli ist nicht genug...

      August 10, 2023 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

      ... dachten wir und folgten den Empfehlungen von Lonely Planet und ein paar Instagram-Menschen, die gerade hier waren oder noch sind und die haben uns Nilaveli wärmstens empfohlen. Wärmstens ist auch gar nicht übertrieben, weil es an diesem sagenhaften Strand keinen einzigen Liegestuhl gab, geschweige denn einen Liegestuhl im Schatten und es so 36°C im Schatten hatte (falls wir jemals Schatten gehabt hätten). Was es hier allerdings endlos gab, war ein superschöner Strand und die Möglichkeit 50 Meter lang ins Wasser zu laufen und immernoch nicht schwimmen zu müssen, weil überhaupt nicht tief. Das Wasser ist total schön ruhig und glasklar. Wäre da nur nicht das Problem mit dem fehlenden Schatten. Irgendwann, nachdem wir endlos durch die Strandwüste geirrt sind und uns mit ein paar Krebsen angefreundet haben (mal schauen, ob man es auf dem Bild erkennt), erspähten wir ein seltenes Gebäude, nämlich ein Hotel, dass uns Obdach gewährt hat. Dazu muss man wissen, dass diese Ecke wohl bis 2019 kaum Touristen beherbergte. Dann kam Corona und nun, da wären wir heute. Kein Wunder also, dass wir hier kaum Angebote fanden zum Pausieren.
      Mir hat noch ein Singalese einfach so Muscheln geschenkt, als wir an ihm vorbeigeschlendert sind. Der betreibt dort tatsächlich ein Motorboot-Business - mit (k)einem Motorboot. Den sieht man auch auf einem der Bilder vor einer Hütte im Wasser.
      Wir fragten uns natürlich auch, warum hier kaum Touristen sind. Daraufhin wurde uns erklärt, dass die meisten hier einfach ein Boot auf die Pigeon-Insel buchten, um dort zu Schnorcheln, aber eben nicht am hiesigen Strand blieben! (weil kaum Platz im Schatten). Die Pigeon-Insel ist Teil eines marinen Nationalparks. Das haben wir jetzt mal ausgelassen.
      So hatten wir dann doch einen schönen ruhigen Tag am Strand verbracht.      Read more

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    • TravelerOur little family adventure
      Day 98

      Lila's 5th birthday :)

      August 25, 2018 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

      Today we celebrated our little miss turning 5yrs old 🎉 She said she wanted to go to the beach, which is why we are here!
      She started the day with video calls to our family and her best preschool friend and her presents, some silver anklets with bells (which lots of girls in India wear) + a new toothbrush! She was surprised with a lovely flower necklace from the guesthouse, and we spent the day on the beach 🏖 We shared some birthday ice cream🍨 (instead of cake) and got treated to an amazing sky of storm clouds rolling through in the late afternoon.Read more

    • TravelerOur little family adventure
      11
      Day 96

      Nilaveli Beach

      August 23, 2018 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

      We have headed to the east coast, where they say has beautiful beaches as well as a handful of beaches that are suitable for kids as there aren't too many rough waves. It is quite gorgeous and pictuesque, with clean and and turquoise waters, depending on the sun and the clouds. It's an almost private beach for the guesthouse/resort we stay at, complete with little beach cabanas and coconut trees.Read more

    • TravelerA&K Adventure 2019
      12
      Day 76

      D76 Sri Lanka - Nilavelli Beach

      September 18, 2019 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

      As we were standing in the driveway of our hotel complex yesterday afternoon looking for a potential driver on Google, a young guy pulled up and said “Do you want something?”. We’re getting used to automatically saying “No, thank you!”, but before I could get that out Ant said “Are you a driver?”. In a nutshell we’ve secured ourselves a driver from here to Nilavelli for a reasonable price - we’d be saving so much if we were taking public buses...but we’d be risking losing our nerves and our stuff in the process!

      After a pre-breakfast walk and a “near death experience” (Ant was almost taken out by a falling tree branch), we ate our last servings of hoppers and fresh fruit before running back to our room to pack. The bags are pushing their limits - they’re doing us proud!
      We checked out and collected yet another business card with the attached request for a Trip Advisor review. It’s becoming a full time job I tell you, good thing I love it...
      Our driver was bang on time and after we stopped at an ATM (for us) and a grocery store (for him), we headed down the road. Thankfully it was only 120km to Nilavelli and the roads were supposedly in really good condition in comparison to what we’ve been travelling on so far. Great news if that meant less time in a car!

      About half an hour into the journey and both of us had suspicions that what he was drinking wasn’t orange juice. A quick google of the brand and it soon became clear that his breakfast beverage of choice started with B and ended with RANDY. It’s becoming clear that having a bottle of booze next to the driver’s seat is not abnormal (as we’ve noticed the last 2 days with seperate drivers), and the local authorities don’t seem overly concerned about it (having been pulled over for a license and insurance check, with the bottle in plain view). But whatever, it’s just drinking and driving...

      We got here in one piece, I was so relieved that I nearly kissed the ground! I think it’s a firm NO to his offer to drive us back to Negombo in a few days time.

      We were shown straight to our villa, despite being a few hours early, and met one of the workers, Niru. Apparently the owner Amal, who we’ve read is a great host and an AMAZING cook, is in hospital so unfortunately we won’t be meeting him. But the three guys running the show while he’s gone all seem lovely, and there are only 3 villas which means it’ll be nice and quiet.

      About 30 minutes after we arrived we sat outside on our small verandah and before we knew it the heavens opened up and for the next couple of hours it rained. And rained. And rained. And we had no food. So the minute it stopped we quickly ran 2 minutes down the beach to ‘That’s Why’ beach shack/restaurant/cool dudes hangout, where Niru had said to try for food. I was immediately complimented on my hair by my male hair twin, so I was happy - the food was equally as soul warming!

      For the rest of the afternoon we walked northward up the beach and found a local supermarket where we stocked up on emergency snacks, then scored a lift home from Niru in his tuk tuk!
      The sun had finally appeared so we made ourselves comfy on the sun chairs that the villa supply (we are right on the beach!) and it didn’t take long for us to get into the water. We’re not going to lie - it was pretty nerve wracking as the waves were huge, the drag back out was really strong and it would’ve been too easy for either one of us to have been carried out. We played it safe like the others around and stuck in the shallows, but that didn’t stop me carting 2 kg of sand back off the beach in my bather bottoms!

      We went back to the same place for dinner and it was pretty disappointing - the only beer was the bog standard Lion (which we’re both sick of) and the fish was over cooked. Maybe we’re getting picky, but it wasn’t super cheap and we expected more from a place that is apparently so popular. Ah well, you live and learn!

      We ended the night watching YouTube videos - keeping it real everyone!      Read more

    • TravelerTravel 2020 - TBC
      111
      Day 22

      Polonaruwa —> Marble Beach —> Nilaveli

      January 27, 2020 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

      I woke up at 5:45 and it was beginning to get light outside. We had heard that at sunrise you can go and watch the local fishermen bring in their catch. They are obviously up much earlier than us. I rose Tom and we headed to Kalkudah beach where the sun was beginning to rise. We stood on the old Kalkudah Jetty, built by the British in 1901, and watched as a fisherman came to shore. We didn’t think he’d been successful as his pile of netting looked empty, but as he and all his mates on the beach began to unravel the net there were loads of fish in there! It was pretty cool to see all the locals pitch in and it seemed that they all took a share of the catch. We headed back to our ‘Inn on the Bay’ to pack up our stuff as we thought it best to get going as the drive north to Nilaveli was about 120km.

      We hit the road via the petrol station for some fuel and oil for Greta and some veggie roti, other baked goods and 5 bananas for the price of 4 for us. The weather was perfect, wall to wall sunshine which made for easy motoring. After nearly three hours of driving we got to Marble beach, still 30km from Nilaveli, as we had been recommended this beach by the guy who ran the hostel in Sigiriya. It was 30 rupees each to get in and it was a nice beach...small low breakers and you could walk out miles. We chilled here for a bit and enjoyed the waves, messing around as usual trying to kick and punch holes in the breakers...such kids. On the way back to the Tuktuk, I noticed a big monkey running around. We immediately realised that we hadn’t put the sides down on the Tuktuk again! Then I realised that I still had a banana left which I put on the back shelf...safe to say that was long gone - the cheeky monkeys!!

      Anyway, we hopped back in for the last bit of the journey and we eventually got to Nilaveli. The maps.me app took us a weird route so it seemed our accommodation was miles from the road, but it actually wasn’t. When we got to the aptly named ‘Nilaveli Sand Life’, it was like paradise. Sand roads, palm trees, little beach huts and a place where it felt there was a no shoe policy. We were shown to our beach cabana, right on the beach front and we could hear the waves crashing. It had an outside shower, a small wooden table and chairs and best of all, a hammock for the full beach vibe. We both immediately relaxed and I went to set myself up on the beach with my book. Tom did the same in the hammock and we spent a couple of hours just taking a break from the dirty smelly part of travelling.

      After a few hours we both got ready and headed out for some food. On the way for food, we got stopped by the police. I was driving, so got my licence ready. They looked impressed that we had the right documents and asked us where we were from etc and asked if we liked Sri Lanka - of course we said yes...they were armed. They gave my licence back and we parted with a handshake - another nice encounter with police who seemed happy that western people haven’t been put off coming to Sri Lanka after the trouble last year.

      We were a few kilometres from Nilaveli town so we hopped in the Tuktuk and set off in search of food. Not too far in we found this little place, N.K. Family Restaurant. It was a tiny little place, but the prices were good and we were hungry, obviously we ordered veggie rice and curry. It came and I can honestly say it was the best tasting food I’d had since my send off dinner by the Beck Bottom Gang. Everything was so tasty!!! We finished up and the lady took our plates away and then immediately said the cost to us...she wasn’t being rude though as there is quite a big language barrier here in the north and the people are very different to other parts of Sri Lanka. We paid and went on the hunt for a little bakery to satisfy our sweet tooth. Whilst we were having dinner we saw the bakery man go last playing his tune, so we started investigating with locals which way he had gone. We ended up not finding him but instead finding a brilliant sunset on a bridge...the randomness of travelling never gets old. We ended up getting some stuff from the local shop instead and then came back to our beach for a long walk and a chill on the daybeds. What a long day it had seemed, but we were now set for 4 nights at Nilaveli Sand Life to have a recharge.      Read more

    • TravelerOur little family adventure
      Day 106

      Back to Nilaveli

      September 2, 2018 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

      We had a few different ideas and feelings about where to go next and spend the rest of our time in Sri Lanka. We end up deciding to head back to Nilaveli Beach where we spent Lila's birthday. We get lucky with a cancellation to get a room at the place we stayed last time, so enjoy a lovely 3 last days in Sri Lanka by this beautiful east coast beach. Lila tries some snorkelling and we see an amazing storm come through the beach. Each day we were there it was magical watching Lila's confidence and love of the sea grow 🤗. It is so much joy watching her enjoy trying to put her head under the water and playing in the soft waves ❤ 👌Read more

    • Abenteuer Sri LankaAbenteuer Sri Lanka
      Day 12

      Nilaveli

      September 24, 2015 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      Endlich Strand

      Heute war der letzte Tag unserer Reise mit Tampike. Er brachte uns zum Abschluss nach Trincomalee bzw Nilaveli.

      Wird konnten es kaum erwarten uns in den indischen Ozean zu stürzen. Nachdem wir das Hotel nach mehreren Anläufen gefunden haben (vertraue niemals Google Maps), verabschiedeten wir Tampike, zogen uns um und konnten endlich die Abkühlung genießen.

      Leider wurde das ganze etwas durch dunkelblaue Qualen getrübt, die wir nicht kannten und auch nicht näher kennenlernen wollten. Also entschieden wir uns für einen Strandspaziergang. Auch hier an der Ostküste wird fleißig gebaut. Dennoch hat man noch fast den ganzen Strand für sich allein. Nur das Müllproblem müssen die Singhalesen nich hinbekommen. Ansonsten ist es ein schöner weiter Sandstrand.

      Kurz vor Einbruch der Dunkelheit kamen wir zurück ins Hotel und genossen unser Abendbrot.

      Morgen leihen wir uns einen Scooter aus und wollen die Gegend etwas unsicher machen.      Read more

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