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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tour of Anuradhapura, one of Sri Lanka’s most famous ancient towns, will need an entire day. Hence, schedule accordingly. The town is famous for its many many Buddhist Stupas. Hopping from one to the other easily takes about 4-5 hours. Now, we were staying at the Cinnamon in Habarana (Review of Cinnamon Lodge […]