Nieuwoudtville and Verneukpan
Day 2 and Day 3 of our Botswana Trip.
Bainskloof and Sanddrif
Day 1 of our Botswana trip.
Colombo
We somehow arrived back in Colombo with one full day to spare. We went to the city center to walk around some of the busy market streets where a Tamil procession was taking place. Around lunch we went to a big mall to watch Mission Impossible 6, continuing our tradition of watching movies in foreign countries, [...]
Polonnaruwa
To get to Polonnaruwa only took 2 buses costing a total of 10 ZAR per person. On the second bus we, however, had to stand for almost an hour before a seat went open. We checked in at Dilshan Guest House at 12:00 and then immediately set out on exploring the historical city of Polonnaruwa that [...]
Sigiriya
The morning we left Kandy Hugo was still complaining about his scratching eye since the bus ride to Ella. We thus went to a local hospital to check it out. Hugo ended up getting a minor eye 'surgery', i.e. a foreign object removal treatment. He got a massive eye patch that he had to wear [...]
Kandy
Kandy is another big city, but we managed to find a very cheap place away from the city center, but easily reachable by bus. The bus into the city is only R2. We spent almost 4 hours in the Udawattakele Forest in awe of the massive trees and the greenness. Seeing the giant lianas were also [...]
Nuwara Eliya
The train stops in Nanu Oya from where we shared a taxi to Nuwara Eliya. We didn't prebook anything so got dropped of at Hi Lanka Hostels with two other Germans. Hi Lanka was however too expensive for us so we found a homestay nearby. The area looked nothing like the photos of rolling Tea [...]
Ella
We got up 'early' and caught a bus to Matara central busstation. We waited an hour for the bus to Ella to depart, but luckily it was a direct bus so we didn't have to change again. The bus was blaring loud Sri Lankan music (videos of live shows) the whole time with the base [...]
Mirissa
We only went 8km further from Weligama to meet up with Sam and Sabrina in Mirissa, they arrived in Colombo the day before. Sam traveled with us last year for a month in Namibia. We had cheap Vegetable Kottu for dinner and then finally played some cards again at the Sunstyle guest house where we [...]
Weligama
From Unawatuna we took the local bus to Weligama. We had to walk about a kilometer to a place we saw online, luckily after 500m we found a roadside buffet restaurant with the cheapeast rice and curry yet. After the brunch break we walked to the guest house we saw online. At the gate we [...]