Sri Lanka || A Wrap

Sri Lanka || A Wrap

Sri Lanka - A Wrap 11 Pictures From As Many Days In 'The Nation Of Smiling People' IMAGE || Riding the rails, Central Sri Lanka. “Sri Lanka was a treat, its scenery amazing, its food delicious, its people some of the most genuinely warmest, welcoming I’ve yet...
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Kandy, Sri Lanka

Kandy is Sri Lanka’s historic UNESCO-listed second city & cultural centre. The country’s capital in the 16th century, this sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage enabled...
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Ella & Nuwera Eliya, Central Sri Lanka

My adventure in Sri Lanka continues. I’ve spent the last few days in the chilly hill county towns of Ella & Nuwera Eliya (& getting between the two was a real treat). This is tea country – the first tea leaves harvested in Sri Lanka were planted in...
Sri Lanka || Riding The Rails

Sri Lanka || Riding The Rails

There’s something special about train travel in Sri Lanka. Something very special indeed. Yes, it’s a slow means of transport; schedule times are rarely, if ever, met; the rolling stock, holdovers from the British colonial days of the early 20th century, are rickety...
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Stilt Fishing, Sri Lanka

Stilt Fishing, a tradition still practised by only a few communities in western & southern Sri Lanka, has got to be high up there on the tough-ways-of-making-a-living list. It certainly didn’t look like much fun from where I was standing – firmly on...
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Galle, Sri Lanka

I left the beach of Unawatuna for a bit today & paid a visit 6 kilometres up the coast to the historic port town of Galle, the earliest European administrative centre in Sri Lanka, the 4th largest town in the country & the capital of the southern province. The...
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Unawatuna, Sri Lanka

The beautiful beach of Unawatuna is located just 6 kilometres south of Galle in southern Sri Lanka, slap-bang in the middle of the southern coastal belt, the most popular stretch of Sri Lankan coastline with locals & foreigners alike – the region’s...
Colombo to Galle, Sri Lanka || Riding The Rails

Colombo to Galle, Sri Lanka || Riding The Rails

I was between carriages, my bags & I confined to a space maybe the size of a phone box, a space that seemed to be shrinking by the minute, the warm & close smell of body odor, a Indian subcontinent stalwart, strong. There were Sri Lankans everywhere,...
Mumbai (Bombay), India

Mumbai (Bombay), India

It is true that travelers tend to regard time spent in Mumbai, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, as a rite of passage to be survived rather than savored. And it is also true that you need more than the one day we had at our disposal in the city in order to fully...
Palolem Beach, Goa, India

Palolem Beach, Goa, India

It’s April 3, 2008. We’ve just left Palolem Beach in Goa, India, after a rather relaxing & rather eventful 6 night stay. We didn’t intend to spend 6 nights doing nothing here. It just happened and we rolled with it. This is how it went....

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