Sean’s Blog – Thoughts & Ideas

Right now I will be doing my thoughts and ideas about Sri Lanka. My first thought is about the hotels. Favourite to less favourite. In first place is Mirissa. The reason for that is the beach  is right out front, the room  has views for sunsets, it has  a nice pool and the hotel is  close to …

Liam’s Blog

As I look back on my trip I think about all of the amazing things we have done from sitting for 24 hours on a plane to jumping off a moving train. I think there is actually only 5 things that interested me on this trip. This is the top 5 best things about this …

People watching on Mirissa Beach

There is a rhythm to the beach. The light changing with the early morning hues to the bright white, eye squinting light of mid day to the soft colours of end of day sunset. And here at Mirissa Beach, you get the extra artificial and not very subtle lights at night - rows and rows …

Resort Vortex

We could of stayed and stayed but we did escape the vortex and see a bit of the south coast beyond the resort walls. The morning dips in the upper pool, evening dips in the lower pool, a play in ocean waves in between and leisure strolls through the lovely grounds-  it sucked us in and …

Indian Ocean Tropics

The spice trade and tea trade- all brought foreigners to the shores of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and now it's the beaches and tropical paradise that bring the English, Dutch, Germans (always Germans!), Italians, Norwegians, Aussies, Russians and more recently the Chinese. As North American travellers, we are the minority and have not met anyone …

A Room with a View

Our time in the little town of Ella was great- a Room with a View (any E.M Forrester fans  out there?), great travelers restaurants ( i.e.- more western food selections!), lots of walking trails close by and day trip excursions. It was a happy little travelers spot and it was a perfect re-boot for us …

Adam’s Peak -a no go.

So after our disaster at the train station in Kandy we spent the next few days traveling through the hill country of Sri Lanka - but not by train.  Our travel legs were cut out from under us after that incident and it took a few days to get our groove back.  Instead of the …

Disaster at Kandy train station.

We have come up with several different titles for this blog over last few days. Titles like: " I jumped off a moving train. It was a bad idea" ;  "Today I jumped from a moving train"; " Eric watches too many Indiana Jones movies" ; and "Dumb things tourist do" . I think you …

Elephant Show Down.

The jeep safari to see elephants did not disappoint! We saw families and families of elephants. The groups of elephants we saw are known for their late afternoon grazing by the water hole, so it wasn't so much a safari, as a jeep ride to their grazing grounds. It was amazing to see the elephants …

Ancient Polonnaruwa

I need to back track a bit on our travels. We have left the "Cultural Triangle" - in the  lowlands north of Kandy, but there is still much to say about our visit there.  It is the land of rice paddies, peacocks, elephants, and ancient kingdoms! Our previous visit to Dambulla caves and Sigiriya Rock …