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Webby's Travel Blog - Sri Lanka

Written 20 October 2009, 17:00 by Paul

Firstly, apologies for my lack of activity on the site over the last two months. I’ve been doing some travelling and working as an English Teacher, as a result I’ve had limited access to the internet.

However, I’ve finally put up a little blog about my travels in Sri Lanka. Hope you enjoy. Sorry for all the pictures, there were just so many. It’s an amazing country with beautiful scenery and really nice people.

After a four hour flight from Dubai, we were in Colombo, the capital. There’s not too much to see here so we drove in to the middle of the country to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. I couldn’t get over how green the countryside is. This is actually near where The Bridge over the River Kwai was shot.

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Here we got to get really close to the elephants. There were hundreds of them.

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From here, we went to Siguriya where we went on an elephant safari. This is a really beautiful part of the country, there’s so much history here.

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This is Siguriya Rock, where the King of Sri Lanka lived. The rock is shaped to look like a lion. The king had 500 wives and he had pictures of them all painted on the walls. Some man!

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We were staying in a nice hotel place but they wanted our rooms for other tourists so they offered us a jungle bungalow for the night. We weren’t sure at first, but it turned out be really cool. It was massive and it was right in the middle of the jungle. It also had a tree house to scout elephants and buffalo. Didn’t see any though. Here we had one of the maddest, most random nights ever. I consumed lots of Lion Lager (the local brew) and the spiciest food you could imagine. In Sri Lanka every thing is spicy, even ketchup. They have curry for breakfast, which is surprisingly quite refreshing in the morning.

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After that, we went to Adam’s Peak, a big mountain in the middle of the country. It’s twice the size of Carrantuohill (the biggest mountain in Ireland.) We climbed it at night, in the rain, fighting off leaches. They’re horrible you have to burn them off or put salt on them or they’ll leave their teeth in you and they can get infected. I really can’t stress how horrible they are. You’re supposed to climb through the night and reach the top to see the sunrise over Sri Lanka. Apparently it’s breathtaking. For us though it was lashing rain. So we could barely see our hands in front of out faces. But this Buddhist monk made me the best cup of tea I’ve ever had and I rang a bell to signify the achievement.

Tea with a Buddhist Sherpa GentlemanView
It was tough but it was worth it for the views on the way down.

Finally after 4 days of heavy travelling and sightseeing, we went to Hikkaduwa to chill out on the beach. This was as laid back as you could get. Great food and surf (not that I did any). I did swim with massive turtles though. It was quite sad though because this area was devestated by the tsunami in 2004.

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I would have loved to have spent more time here. It was such a nice end to a pure class holiday. Stay tuned for more travel blogs in the future.

— Paul

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Leave a comment ...

  1. Top drawer! You had to go all the way to Sri Lanka for a decent cup of tea.

    — Dara · Oct 21, 01:11 PM · #

  2. Wow! It looks amazeen :o

    — Laura · Oct 21, 01:38 PM · #

  3. Glad you’re enjoying it Webby

    — Looseheadsteve · Oct 21, 02:14 PM · #

  4. Curry for breakfast sounds great!

    — Rob2D · Oct 21, 02:53 PM · #

  5. There are leeches in Utter Despair, too. But they wear pants. This is amazing and breathtaking. Can’t believe you were where they shot THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. Stay well, Webby, and be careful.

    — THE FUTURIST! · Oct 21, 06:40 PM · #

  6. Great photos and great blog. Looks like a lovely place!

    — Gearóid · Oct 21, 06:44 PM · #

  7. That is incredible. What a place. I want to go. I will go. And that girl on the left has MTV boobies. That’s really something.

    — Ahoj · Oct 22, 04:45 PM · #

  8. good man paulie, you’re fairly getting around! i like your raincoat too, shiny.

    — eamon · Oct 28, 04:45 PM · #

  9. hey webby, great blog, really lovely pictures too. looking forward to reading more now. nice raincoat:) best cup of tea eh? class

    — hego · Nov 2, 04:38 PM · #

  10. Wow, lovely pics! Glad to see you got so close to them.

    — Izzie · Mar 29, 03:55 PM · #

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