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Category Archives: Sri Lanka

Anuradhapura

August 12, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

About a three hour bus journey away from the beaches is the ancient city ruins of Anuradhapura. The main town these days isn’t much to look at except for the […]

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Beachtime at Uppaveli & Nilaveli

August 9, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

The North east of Sri Lanka is the sort of place guide books recommend to visit before it changes. Hit by the long running civil war and also facing the […]

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Scaling Sigiriya

August 7, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

Heading north out of Kandy I entered the ‘Cultural Triangle’ of the ancient cities of Anuradhapura, Sigiriya and Polunawarra. Around 1500 years ago these were the administrative centre of the […]

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Sri Lanka – Odds and Ends

August 5, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

Sri Lanka for the tourist is a little powerhouse – trekking in hill country, tea plantations, colonial forts, surfing, ancient cities, meditation and of course endless deserted beaches. Apart from the […]

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Nilambe Silent Meditation Retreat

July 30, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

Getting to the Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre involved two bone-rattling tuk tuk rides, one broke down before the next one delivered me to the centre but not before my backpack had […]

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Trains, Tidy Towns and Tea in Hill Country

July 21, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

There are only two direct buses from Galle to Ella in the hill country, one at 5am and another at the only slightly better time of 6am. This was a […]

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Colombo to Galle

July 18, 2016by michaeledooley Leave a comment

Arriving in Sri Lanka was definitely a change of gears from Delhi – where was everyone for starters? Spending a month in India had me accustomed to people, noise, traffic, […]

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