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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 1132 – Ella to Galle, SRI LANKA According to my plan I was getting up early and catching the bus to Galle, but actually by now I would have liked to stay a bit longer in Ella… Of course I didn’t like Ella at all yesterday, especially because it appeared to me as […]
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 1121 – Polonnaruwa to Anuradhapura, SRI LANKA After my almost ruin free day yesterday in Polonnaruwa, today I was off to the next ruined capital, named Anuradhapura… Anuradhapura was actually the oldest, biggest and grandest of all the ancient capitals in Sri Lanka. The ruined leftovers of Anuradhapura were of course also a […]
Travel Day 1120 – Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA After my busy day of seeing all the many ruins of Polonnaruwa yesterday, I really didn’t feel like doing much today and I really didn’t feel like seeing more ruins… Overall it seemed to me that the only place I visited yesterday that couldn’t be considered a ruin […]
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 1116 – Sigiriya, SRI LANKA After three days in the sacred city of Kandy, I was off to the next UNESCO Site of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle, the amazing rock city of Sigiriya… Initially I was debating to visit the UNESCO Cave Temples of Dambulla first, but since there was a direct bus […]
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 1001 – Kathmandu, NEPAL After my somewhat interesting visit at the Pashupatinath Temple, it was about time to rather visit a site that I actually cared for, Boudhanath… Boudhanath was next to Swayambhunath the most important Buddhist site in Nepal and it too was an enlisted UNESCO World Heritage Site. Boudhanath was actually […]
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 […]