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Travel Day 1135 – Galle to Bangkok, THAILAND It was already my last day in Sri Lanka but I still liked to see and learn a little bit more about the amazing UNESCO Fortress City of Galle… Initially I had wanted to venture a little bit around Galle and maybe see some stilt-fishermen along the […]
Travel Day 1134 – Galle, SRI LANKA After exploring all of the defensive fortifications and looking for Portuguese traces of Galle yesterday, today I much rather focused on the Dutch colonial houses… Obviously there were still a lot of colonnaded Dutch colonial houses within the UNESCO enlisted Old Town of Galle and it almost seemed […]
Travel Day 1133 – Galle Fort, SRI LANKA After just being able to go on a short stroll along the sea-walls yesterday, today I was finally able to fully appreciate the UNESCO enlisted Dutch fortress city of Galle… Galle city had been, as any other place along the coast of Sri Lanka, a Portuguese settlement […]
Travel Day 1122 – Anuradhapura, SRI LANKA Today was another day and it was a big one for me as I was attempting to see as much as possible of the UNESCO enlisted Sacred City of Anuradhapura… Anuradhapura had been the sacred capital of the Sinhalese kingdoms since the 4th BC but unfortunately during its […]
Travel Day 1119 – Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA Today was a full day of visiting once again an ancient ruined capital, but instead of climbing on a rock as I had done in Sigiriya, I was cruising around on a bike… Luckily I had arrived already yesterday afternoon and so I was able to do some […]
Travel Day 1118 – Sigiriya to Dambulla to Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA It would have been no problem to spend a week by the fascinating Rock City of Sigiriya and to cycle around while making mew discoveries, but because there were so many other sights in the Cultural Triangle, I rather decided to carry on… My […]
Travel Day 1117 – Sigiriya, SRI LANKA It was finally the big day of visiting what was probably the most hyped site of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle, the UNESCO enlisted Ancient Rock City of Sigiriya… Obviously I did what had to be done: Getting up early, eating the pre-arranged breakfast and standing by 7am at […]
Travel Day 1115 – Kandy, SRI LANKA After watching the Esala Perahera for the past two days, it was more than time to see a little bit of the UNESCO enlisted Sacred City of Kandy… Actually long before I arrived in Sri Lanka and long before I even knew anything about the Esala Perahera festival, […]
Travel Day 1000 – Kathmandu, NEPAL It was Monday morning and as the Nepali girls recommended, this was the best time of the week to visit the UNESCO enlisted Pashupatinath Temple… I had set my mind on walking all the way from Thamel and when I finally came down the last little hill, I arrived […]
Travel Day 910 – Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu, INDIA It was our only full day in Thanjavur (Tanjore) and we had two main items on the agenda, on the one hand we wanted to visit the Royal Palace and on the other the Brihadishwara Temple… Since the Royal Palace was supposed to be open continuously, we […]
Travel Day 903 – Chennai to Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, INDIA After spending more time in Chennai then really necessary, this morning was definitely time to move on to better things… We actually had to move on quite early since check out turned out to be at 6am, which had been our arrival time two days […]
Travel Day 897 – Puri and Konark, INDIA Puri was definitely a great place to stay and the prospect of being able to see a close by UNESCO World Heritage Site was even better… But first we found ourselves a nice little place for breakfast with outdoor seating and really tasty food to a very […]
Travel Day 812 – Belem, Lisbon, PORTUGAL Since this was not only our fist but also our only full day in Lisbon and since we still wanted to see everything in town, we needed to get ourselves a bit organized… First off we took a stroll down from Praca Dom Pedro to the nice old Praca do Comercio at […]