woke up late in the morning, had traditional Sri lankan breakfast (string hoppers, curry, rotti etc.)               decided to rent bikes for the day went to see the ruins of ancient city - skipped the insane entrance fee and saw...

  we decided that we go to see the less tourist places in the Dambulla region: Nalanda Gedige - small shrine which is well preserved but not visited by many tourist due to its location We took bus from Dambulla to Matale and get off on Gedige road junction (we paid around 50 rupees each for...

We woke up early to catch an early bus to Kandy. We had booked tickets in first class in train from Kandy to Nanu Oya (train station close to Nuwara Eliya) which was leaving Kandy/Peradenyia at 12:35. Got to Peradenyia around 10:30 and waited 2 hours in the train station. The train was very...

we arranged our driver Mihal for 9:30 in the morning. As usual for all Sri Lankans he arrived earlier:) first we drove through beautiful area of tea plantations of Mackwoods estate. stopped for some pictures of waterfalls and short walks in the tea plantations met few tea picking women and...

Unfortunatelly there is no direct bus from Nuwara Eliya to Arugam Bay we took early bus from Nuwara Eliya to Wellawaya (apprx 2 hours and 200 rupees each), changed to bus to Monaragala (travel time 1 hour, price 50 rupees) We had to wait for bus to Arugam Bay in Monaragala for 2 hours and...

We went to Yoga on the beach in the morning. It was very refreshing to strech after those long bus trips we experienced in previous days. decided to rent bikes for the rest of the day and cycled few kilometrs along the beach. The bikes were really bad and one of them had flat...

We left Arugam Bay in the morning after delicious breakfast in our guesthouse Nice Place. They had the best fresh fruit coctails in Sri Lanka. The bus station is in Potuvill which is apprx. 3 km from Arugam Bay. There is unfortunately no direct bus to Tissamaharama. We took bus to Monaragale...

We visited well preserved Dagobas in the Tissamaharama (Sandarigi dagoba andTissamaharama Dagoba). The great thing was that there were almost no tourists. We spent there morning and returned to our guesthouse to arrange safari to the Bundalla or Yala national park. We met another young couple...

We took direct bus from Tissamaharama to Weligama. It was the Galle express bus (we paid around 100 rupees, travel time apprx. 2 hours). Arrived to our guesthouse Surf Bay Resort around noon, checked-in and ordered dinner for the evening – fresh fish from the market with salad. Went to see the...

We arranged a scooter with our guesthouse and hit the road around 10 am after breakfast. The plan was to go to the Handunugoda Tea Estate to see how the most expensive tea in the world is done (price for one kilo of virgin white tea is around 1400 USD). The tea plantation was around 20 km drive...