Sri Lanka: Cave temples of Dambulla | Flickr Photoset Sri Lanka: Trekking Sigiriya | Flickr Photoset For now, I leave you with a set of “portraits” I’ve shot during my trip. Well, not exactly bad, but definitely a small few misadventures here and there. In the next few posts, I’ll try my best to relive my Ceylonese Odyssey, the good and the bad. We also missed Adam’s Peak further south… They lie just too far up north for our schedule and time constraint. Two most notable sites that we couldn’t fit in our schedule are the ancient cities of Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura. We toured the southern half of the island, although I wish we had had more time so we could have explored more. We were pretty much always arriving later than we thought we would be. Especially when we were aiming to be in certain city at certain time. Not that we were in great hurry, since that gave us a chance to enjoy the view along the route, but it did make time estimation rather tricky.
What distance that could normally be reached within an hour in developped country would take 2-3 times longer here.
We managed to cover quite a good part of the island despite the chronically sluggish driving speed. No slugging bags everywhere, no jumping onto oncoming buses, just freedom to go anywhere we wanted. Pras contacted a driver with a van for us, so for our trip, we now have a chauffeured vehicle. At the same time, driving some place where the rules of the road were unfamiliar to us (well, mostly Claire, since I don’t drive although I could read map!) was not a good idea either. As we had only about a week on the road before settling in Colombo, our best bet for travelling would not be on the mercy of public transports that might take us forever to get from one place to another.
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