Food is an integral part of our travel experience. Where ever we go, we eat only local. Period. Never ever carried separate food even for our daughter, expect those intial two years when she was on baby food. Sri Lanka was no different. In fact, we had made major plans […]
Sri Lanka is extremely rich in its handicrafts. I absolutely went berserk upon seeing their masks, statues, leather products, fabrics. And then they are famous for their gems and semi-precious stones too. Plus, Sri Lanka has Noritake’s outselts. In short, I knew, this would be heaven. To top it, our […]
Colombo and Galle are connected by two roads. The Southern Expressway, 125 kms long, extremely scenic – you must take this road should you have time in your hand. We however, were short on time. Plus, we wanted to visit the Kosgoda Turtle Hatching Centre, and so we took the […]
A wee bit of a town, with a strong history, Galle, is for people who like to see the ‘ordinary’ in a country and yet find it extra-ordinary. You will find here an overwhelming leftover of the Portugese and Dutch occupation. And although we were staying in Unawatuna (Read: Review […]
A two-night stay to ring in the new year better be a special place, said Jayanta. And so, booked Coco bay, a boutique resort in Unawatuna that had a private beach and was just a 15-minute drive from the main town of Galle. Being a boutique resort, the place is […]
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 […]