Habarana to Kandy is just about 100km apart, and we should have completed the journey in about 3 hours. Well, it took us the whole day! Yes, we stopped at various places during the drive…not that we minded them. However, in our lust to see and experience it all along […]
After our tour of the spice and herbal garden (Read: Spice & Herbal Garden Tour in Sri Lanka ), and a sumptous lunch, we headed for some tableware shopping at Noritake . Noritake’s factory outlet at Matale, some 45 min away from Kandy, was our final stop before we proceeded […]
Spice and herbal garden in Sri Lanka. Exotic it sounds, all right. But for a garden lover like me, it was a must-see. Nay, must-visit. Jayanta found and planned for one enroute Kandy from Habarana. And so, post our Dambulla Cave Temple tour (Read about: Dambulla Cave Temple Tour), we […]
We went to the Dambulla Cave Temple on our way from Habarana to Kandy. It is another of those temples that is located on top of a rock that required climbing for about 15-20 minutes. Surprisingly, despite having trekked all the way up to Sigiriya (Read: Tour of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka) the previous evening, our legs weren’t […]
The Sigiriya rock, perhaps, is the mascot of Sri Lanka. It is a UNESCO heritage site, and certainly, one of the most visited in Sri Lanka. You see its photographs everywhere in the country, starting from the immigration section of the airport. We had scheduled our Sigiriya tour for the […]
I dread the usual Goa’s beach and beer stories. Which is why I always protest the ‘Goa-plan’ mooted by the daughter and the father at home. But for this Easter weekend, there wasn’t any other option — by the time my leaves got approved, flight and hotel rates had touched […]
Vivenda Dos Palhacos. Nestled in the coconut groves of Majorda village in Goa, it took us more than 20 minutes to locate the place that night after our 14-hour drive from Mumbai. After two calls to Simon, the owner of Vivenda, and help from one of their staff, we reached Vivenda only to realise we had driven […]
Polonnaruwa, just like Anuradhapura (Read — Tour of Anuradhapura), is another of Sri Lanka’s most famous royal ancient towns. About 50 kms away from Habarana where we were staying (Read Review of Cinnamon Lodge in Habarana), we started off soon after breakfast since we also wanted to go to Sigiriya in the evening. Polonnaruwa ruins is spread across […]