Small wheels in a big world
Saturday January 11, 2014, 75 km (47 miles) – Total so far: 806 km (501 miles)
We left at 7 in the morning. The village was already busy, but leaving it, there seemed to be no more traffic at all. Beautiful road along the ocean side, although the huge damage of the big Tsunami in 2004 is still visible along the coast-ruins of damaged houses, everything left and abandoned.
Friday January 10, 2014, 78 km (48 miles) – Total so far: 731 km (454 miles)
We started at 7 o´clock in the morning to do a good amount of kms without the hot midday sun. Small villages and the sea, nothing special. In fact, the road seemed a little bit boring to us. We had some breakfast and coconut breaks on the road, and while chatting with people, we realized how many of the tamil people had already worked abroad.
Thursday January 9, 2014
Chilling in Victorias guesthouse, chatting with the wonderful host „Mercy“, enjoying her sweet daughter „Emi“ and just doing nothing. Holiday!!!
Wednesday January 8, 2014, 118 km (73 miles) – Total so far: 653 km (406 miles)
At 7.30 we were back on the road. Our clothes were still humid when we put them on in the morning, for the air here in Trincomalee had so much humidity, that even though we hung them outside yesterday, they wouldn´t dry 100%. But that should change soon…..
Tuesday January 7, 2014
Another day, another weather. Sunshine again. We had a wonderful breakfast with scrambled eggs, rotis (meal mixed with milled coconut-looks like a small pancake), Dhal curry, spicy ground coconut and fresh fuit. We really enjoy the food here, everything is just delicious and always fresh made.
Monday January 6, 2014, 135 km (84 miles) – Total so far: 535 km (332 miles)
As a long day was lying before us, we started early in the morning at 6 o´clock. Some bananas on the way served as a breakfast. The weather was cloudy, not too bad, still warm like 28°C.
„Polonnaruwa-Trincomalee: Rain,rain,pouring rain“ weiterlesen
Sunday January 5, 2014, 12 km (7 miles) – Total so far: 400 km (249 miles)
We had a very nice breakfast in our guesthouse with the relaxing view onto rice fields with a lot of birds and Peacocks.Tomorrow we`ll be heading for the coast. So our last visit in the so called cultural triangle region were the ruins of Polonnaruwa.
„Polonnaruwa-The ruins: Our last site in the cultural triangle region“ weiterlesen
Saturday January 4, 2014, 60 km (37 miles) – Total so far: 388 km (241 miles)
Hard to say good-bye to our host family of Mr. Milton in Sigirya! They gave us so much more but a roof over our heads: we enjoyed their kindness, their relaxed attitude, their help in any situation, their laughter and their ability to bring Sri Lanka straight into our hearts. Thank you so much!!!
Friday January 3, 2014
Milton took us with his tuk tuk to some secret places around Sigiryia, a lake with fishermen and rice fields around. Not secret but also very nice was the temple around the big white buddha we already could see from top of the rock.
„Chilling in Sigiriya: Visiting the white buddha and some ayurveda experience“ weiterlesen
Thursday January 2, 2014
We took it easy this morning, sleeping until 9.00, then a wonderful breakfast. Feels like holidays!! Our guesthouse owner Milton had arranged a jeep-tour through the „Kaudulla Nationalpark“ for this afternoon, so we were supposed to see some elephants! We went together with the canadian couple from the room next door and it was really fun.
„Exploring Sigiryia – searching for the elephants: Kaudulla nationalpark safari“ weiterlesen