Category: Travel Journal
Travel Journal entries for each day
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We were able to have a bit of a lie-in again this morning because we didn’t need to meet the bus until 10 AM. We are staying at the Le Grand Hotel which was opened in 2018. The hotel has great views of the Dutch Fort and the Indian Ocean and is the best of…
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Today we had an 8:30 departure time, which seemed much more civilised than that pre-dawn start of yesterday. Deb and I both slept like logs. We were making our way to Galle today, on the south-east corner of the island. As we left the hotel we were pretty quickly on the highway and our first…
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It was a very early start today and I’d like to say that I bounced out of bed at 4:40AM, but that would be a lie. Nonetheless I did get up to be ready to take the bus for the second half of our Yala National Park safari. We were given a packed breakfast from…
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We had a lot of distance to cover today to make our way back down to sea level. This meant we needed to be packed, breakfasted and on the bus by 7:30. We left Nawara Eliya on time as we made our way to our first major stop of the day at Ella. Ella is…
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We were able to have a little sleep in this morning because the only thing on the agenda was a short hike up Single Tree Hill. With the strenuous climb up Sigiriya still front of mind for some, a few of the group decided a bit of shopping and coffee in the town might be…
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Today was a bit of a traveling day as we make our way into the heart of Sri Lanka’s tea producing areas. Breakfast was our last meal at the Grand Kandyan Hotel as we all checked out and boarded our bus. As usual the Intrepid crew had all the bags loaded and we were ready…
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We had a less busy day planned today, so we got to have a welcome sleep in for an extra hour. The breakfast buffet seemed to have a few more options that appealed to me that some of the other hotels so far, so the day was off to a good start. This hotel is…
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We were up at the same time time this morning for the same buffet breakfast prior to departing the Jetwing Lake Dambulla hotel. Overall it was a nice property with good sized well appointed rooms and the setting on the lake is beautiful. Our first activity today was to visit the Dambulla Cave temples which…
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We were up for another busy day today as we planned to go to ancient Sri Lanka’s second capital, Polonnaruwa. Of course the first order of the day was breakfast. There are great views of the lake directly from the restaurant and the morning light showed them up well. Following breakfast we boarded our bus…
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This morning we were up for a 7 AM breakfast before heading to the ancient city of Anuradhapura. The breakfast restaurant has magnificent views over a lake and in the early morning the light was golden. The breakfast buffet had a bit more variety that the hotel in Negombo, however I did discover that their…