Sri Lanka travel stories

Sri Lanka travelogue, part 7: Negombo

I’m glad to leave Nuwara Eliya; the town was too cold for me. This day will be long; I have to change buses in Colombo and apparently at another bus station than the one I have been to already. A...

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Sri Lanka travelogue, part 6: Kandy and Nuwara Eliya

The "room with a view' was still vacant, so no need to think about it for me. Elizabeth, the Canadian lady, was still there to my surprise. She had been ill and spend the couple of days in her ...

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Sri Lanka travelogue, part 5: Anuradhapura

I sit in the back of the bus, here is more place for my backpack. Everyone with luggage comes to the back, chicken in a box are struggling for air as everyone put more boxes on top of their box. I ...

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Sri Lanka travelogue, part 4: Pollonaruwa

I see the land change as the bus drives through it. It seems to me that it gets dryer and dryer the further we drive to the north. The abundant green hills I saw in Kandy are gone here. I ask the d...

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Sri Lanka travelogue, part 3: Ratnapura and Kandy

Mr Khalid tells me to get out of the bus right opposite the central clock in Panadura, "take care! You'll be further on up the road before you've noticed it!" and right he was. I wa...

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