Sri Sri lanka
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This place is a strange one allright.. Started in colombo, to be honest didnt really like it, parts like dublin or any other big (read rich) european cities and then out of town shanty towns and stuff as usuall… I think the thing that attracts you to indian cities maybe is that this sort of segregation isnt usually that apparent (or even there at all) in some… If theres a four seasons or a taj, ther’l still be someone takin a dump against the wall… Anyway, the place looks like the north during the troubles, checkpoints everywhere, pill-boxes etc. Funny thing is, even the army “stop” signs at the checkpoints have advertisements, like ”stop now - army” on one side and “bold - for the whitest whites” on the other.. Unfortunatly and obviously takin pics is out of the question pretty much anywhere youd want to in colombo..
(Temple half way up adams peak)
We rambled on to kandy, really nice hill-town in south-central sri lanka.. Buddhas tooth lives there apparently, but its covered in rock so I guess you have to take the monks word for it. Either way the whole beating drums and chanting is fairly good anyway, they sure know how to rock a mass..
(buddhas on the hill - Kandy)
Seen some nice dancing and fire walking too. Plenty of people there, a bit too much, so we saw the sites by tuc-tuc over a day or two, pretended to be gem dealers to exchange indian currency (your not mean to bring it out of the country), and wandered around tea-plantations, the national parks, and an elephant orphanage…
(Botanical Gardens)
Got lots of pics of elephants but to be honest was like shooting fish in a barrell, the whole lot of them chained up most of the time and about 200 tourists around em…
Everyone we met said dont go east or north, so we decided to go east (well away from the really dodgy parts) for a bit of peace and quiet, ended up in arugam bay, a surfers paradise wrecked first by the tsunami and now by government checkpoints looking for tigers in the neighbouring “strict” national park..
Took us 4 days to get there instead of one, in the mean time we climbed sri lanks 3rd highest mountain, adams peak to the temple at the top for dawn. We left 2.30 at night, figuring that since theres steps all the way up (and we stayed on a mountain before dont-ya-know) that it would be a stroll in the park… Unfortunatly 4,800 steps later in freezing wind and rain we arrived with dead legs and buns of steel, nearly killed us until we met some pilgrims who had come the long way (23km instead of 8km) through leech territory…
(It was feckin freezin and you cant wear shoes 
The view is meant to be the most stunning in the country at dawn, but the clouds and rain meant be couldnt see more than 5foot ahead of us. Was well worth it though, learned all about the shrine and buddhism, and even got a sneak peak at the closed shrine in the temple.. The sun came out for about 20secs after:
(Dawn)
Anyway arugam is a decent place, laid back beach life as usuall, even managed to nearly stand up on the surfboard (in fairness the teacher is an international surfer). A late night and too much of the local coconut distilled spirit arrick after, coupled with dawn wakeboarding (which I can do) in huge waves and some hidden rocks has put me out of action for the next few days, but on the bright side the scars look pretty damn cool live and learn…
(Overexposed tea-plantation - part of a HDR)
By far the redeeming experiences of sri lanka in my eyes anyway was the hill country area (we toured it over 3 days by tuc tuc), prob the most stunning place you could imagine.. People brilliant, even heard a “namaste”… Learned alot from talking to NGO people here, about the conflict and piolitiacl situation.. Still dont have a clue though… Seems to be a common thread, both very complicated to solve, and incredibly stupid to continue at the same time for both sides… even if the majority of people want it stopped. Its hard not to notice the differnce in employment of the tamil and sinhilese population here anyway, have seen plenty of racism, and the tea plantation workers (allthough I dont think strongly tied with the LTTE) seem to mostly be tamil. (As usuall the owners are mostly western, according to people we talked to). Since the war strated again this place is getting worse, tourism has taken a dive, petrol prices are up and inflation is up too, not the best situation. Interesting though, have talked to a lot of people here in the last week or two, and not one really thought the war was a neccesity for either side. Mind you we obviously cant travel at the moment to LTTE territory or jaffna in the north, so not exactly a thurough survey!
(Hill Country)
The army checkpoints we went through were no bother until getting here, one guy took a power trip at my expense on the way then, (think he was compensating for something with his M15), but anyway rings home how bad it must be for locals, especially tamils travelling in the south, considering harassing tourists is extremelly rare, and that wasnt much anyway..
(Hill Country)
As usuall throughout the trip, the people we meet every day are class, and its fairly damn amazing their attitude considering the things that have happened in the last few years… Country is stunning, wildlife is cool, seen giant bats, wild elephants, lizards, millions of strange birds, mad lookin insects, and the dogs arnt half as evil as the andaman ones.. Will stick here for the next few days and maybe stay a day or two in colombo before leaving..
(Hill Country by 3wheeler)
Some pics here, but alot ruined, I spent a fortune on a super-mega-master-camera 5billion-and-one but it has about 300 buttons and I still cant use it properly… Have plenty of time now that im out of the water for awhile so hopefully… The pics on the blog may look pixelated (or the funny thing on the corners), but dont have time to covert RAW/crop/make HDRs etc with them. Will put up all good pics on separete website in a month or two…
(mwah hahaha)
Oh tried to put the pics but my camera is live for some reason and it keeps electrocting me every time i touch it when connected to the pc…. Will do it later..
Ian
(Joe has just found enlightenment - The monk told him it was beside the index in the lonley planet)
August 15th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Will you let me know yer plans for travelling to Thailand so we can sort out meeting up. Think me and Jonny will have to fly from Ho Chi Minh to Bangkok and straight from there to Ko Samui. Not stopping in Bangkok again. Want to get there a couple of days before full moon, its meant to be better craic then
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I love the way joe looks like a giant next to that monk…. very cool. sounds like sri lanka is a lot of fun, even with all the checkpoints. Haven’t been through a decent checkpoint in ages. Try not to get kidnapped by the rebels for ransom or anything, that would be unfortunate, and I certainly can’t afford to pay for your release. Might be able to sort out a whip around or something, but not promising anything….
Taaalk to ye’s laaater (Imagine that in my best Stoneybatter impression accent, just to remind you of home)
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