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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 1131 – Batticaloa to Ella, SRI LANKA Batticaloa had been quite a relaxed local place where one just naturally would like to stay longer, but unfortunately it was time to move on… Actually I had to move on really early as all the local buses seemed to be leaving at 6am sharp and […]
Travel Day 1130 – Batticaloa, SRI LANKA After Exploring Kallady and the beach yesterday, today I definitely had to venture into town and visit the Dutch Fort… Obviously every coastal colonial place in Sri Lanka seemed to have a Dutch Fort which was typically built over an earlier Portuguese version, but here things seemed possibly […]
Travel Day 1129 – Trincomalee to Batticaloa, SRI LANKA Uppuveli Beach would have been the kind of place where one wanted to linger for some time, but because of its extremely high prices it was unfortunately rather a place to check-out and move on quickly… While my friend was heading inland, I was going south […]
Travel Day 1128 – Trincomalee, SRI LANKA After only managing to go for a short dip in the sea yesterday, we really wanted to make this day a Travel Daycation at the beach… Unfortunately everything in our resort hotel was so extremely expensive that we already knew we would have to move-on tomorrow and so […]
Travel Day 1127 – Jaffna to Trincomalee, SRI LANKA After some really interesting days in Jaffna, it was time to pack up and move on, but I wouldn’t leave the Tamil area quite yet… Since I had travelled north trough the center of Sri Lanka, it seemed only natural to now travel south along the […]
Travel Day 1126 – Jaffna and Point Pedro, SRI LANKA The explorational bike ride yesterday had been really enjoyable, especially because I not only found destroyed buildings, but also signs of hope… Obviously the main road I had arrived on, the A9, was a brand new road, making access to Jaffna not only possible, but […]
Travel Day 1125 – Jaffna, SRI LANKA Today I set out on a bike again to explore Jaffna and all of a sudden I realized what was different: Jaffna felt more like India… It was funny because when I first arrived in Colombo, I was in disbelieve how different Sri Lanka was from India. Everything […]
Travel Day 1124 – Anuradhapura to Jaffna, SRI LANKA As I was leaving the Cultural Triangle today while travelling to Jaffna, my wishes came true and there were no more ancient ruins or big dagobas from now on… Well, there were obviously no more dagobas in the north of Sri Lanka as I was leaving […]
Travel Day 1123 – Anuradhapura and Mhintale, SRI LANKA Since I had to stop my explorations of Anuradhapura yesterday due to the heavy rain, today I liked to do two things: seeing more of the historical sites that didn’t require a ticket and visiting the sacred hill temples of Mihintale… Mihintale was considered a sacred […]
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 […]