Wanderlust drives us to faraway lands, interesting waters. And add them to our travel memoirs
Our daughter had been most excited with our plan to go whale watching in Sri Lanka. And no, the need to wake up at 4am did not ebb the excitement in any manner. She looked forward to a morning when she would see the ‘kings of the ocean’. Mirissa is […]
Galle is almost on the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka. It is famous for its fort that had been built by the Portuguese way back in the 16th century, and then, later, taken over by the Dutch. Signs of the Dutch occupation is still very pronounced in the premises of […]
Our final destination in our Sri Lankan sojourn was Unawatuna, the beach town in the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka. Our drive from Nuwara Eliya to Unawatuna would be a long one, about 6-7 hours, since Unawatuna was about 27 kms away. Shushanta, our guide, explained that we would have […]
Nuwara Eliya is a tiny hill station in Sri Lanka’s central province. At an altitude of close to 2000 meters, the little town oscillates from being cool to cold. We reached when it was raining in Nuwara Eliya (Read: Drive from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya). There was a little wind […]
The distance from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya is about 80 kms, and can be easily done in about 3 hours, considering you will be driving hill country. We, as is usual with us, stopped by a whole lot of places and ended up reaching Nuwara Eliya only around 3pm…after about […]
Kandy is right in the middle of Sri Lanka, and is an important seat of religious affairs of the country owing to the Temple of the Tooth. We found the temperatures to be slightly lower than Colombo and Habarana (Read — Drive from Habarana to Kandy), making it very good […]
Cinnamon Citadel is where we’d be stationing for the one night that we were there in Kandy. After our wonderful experience, most importantly, wonderful food experience at the Cinnamon in Habarana (Read: Review of Cinnamon Lodge in Habarana) , we were looking forward to our stay at the same chain […]
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 […]