by timshazz | Apr 9, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
At breakfast Poala and Bruno gave us their address and contact details back home in Italy (we’d given our card earlier). It’d certainly be worthwhile catching up with them as they aren’t that far from our rellies in the north either. Travel is great!...
by timshazz | Apr 8, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
Reclining Buddha at the Temple Caves in Dambulla We took the smaller, AC bus from the bus station at Kandy (360Rps ea) and began the slow procession out of Kandy and its surrounding districts. We found ourselves still going down to the north, central plains from...
by timshazz | Apr 8, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
View of Kandy Lake Arriving 20mins early, we secured seats on the bus and we were soon heading out of Nuwara Eliya and just beginning to realise the extent of the golf course. The ride is a spectacular 2hr descent, winding down an endless series of switchbacks and...
by timshazz | Apr 7, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
Lush gardens at Victoria Park, Nuwara Eliya On arrival in town from our early morning jaunt to Horton’s Plains and onward to Nuwara Eliya, we were swiftly greeting by the Victoria Inn manager as he loaded our bags into an awaiting van. He seemed a bit anxious...
by timshazz | Apr 7, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
Looking south from World’s End viewpoint, Hortons Plains Ever so sweetly, the family got out of bed to farewell us at 5 am as we piled into the tuk-tuk with all our bags. It was actually a bit sad as we’d nurtured a brief but warm relationship with these...
by timshazz | Apr 7, 2019 | Travel Tips and Advice
Namal, our Ella guesthouse owner arranged a tuk-tuk to take us down to the station. To my surprise, there was already about 100 people there and most were tourists. Fortunately for us, everyone was booking secondclass or the viewing carriage. Dambethenna tea...
