Our highland adventures lead us to the backpacker haven of Ella. It was tricky to get accommodation here and perhaps we didn’t look as well as we should have… M and I ended up in a “treehouse” room. Sounds quite romantic hey? To access the treehouse you went up on the roof of the main… Read More Monkeying around
After the south coast we headed inland to the high country, in search of slightly cooler weather and tea! Sri Lanka is famous for its tea and we were keen to learn a bit more about it and try some too. There are many large tea factories you can tour but we found a little,… Read More Time for a cuppa
One of the big things to do in Sri Lanka is go to on a safari. The most popular national park, Yala, features leopards, which sounded very cool but they are notoriously hard to spot. After a bit of reading about which parks have what and when is best to go we opted for Udawalawa… Read More More elephants
Whale watching tours are pretty popular in Sri Lanka but not all are created equally. Like the turtles, whales have a long history of exploitation so we tried to go with an ethical tour, although it’s not always obvious even after you’re on the boat. The first downside was the early start – 6am tuk… Read More A whale of a time
For Christmas day we decided to take a surf lesson! None of us had ever tried surfing before – only the occasional boogie board – so we thought it’d be good to do something physical and that we were all beginners at. We went with a place that got excellent reviews (& we found out… Read More “Duuuude, just keep on surfin’ through life”*
On the southern coastal town of Mirissa we had a few ocean related adventures, including snorkeling with turtles. Who would have thought that just under those waves would be turtles? Turtles nest along the southern coast of Sri Lanka and there are some protections in place, but there’s also a lot of not-so-great stuff. There’s… Read More “Worrying? That’s so un-turtle-like”*
Our last (😱) major stop in our adventures was the teardrop isle of Sri Lanka, where rice and curry reign. They’d had a bad cyclone (Ditwah) come through in couple of weeks earlier and we weren’t sure we should even go but after following some social media groups it seemed like things would be reasonably… Read More Rice & curry and silver
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