Category: Travel Journal
Travel Journal entries for each day
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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…
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We had an early start to today, with our tour leader suggesting we head to the fish market before breakfast because later in the day it gets a bit smelly and sometimes all the action is over by 9:00am. It also meant we could get on the road to Dambulla and Sigiriya a bit earlier.…
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Today is the last day doing our own thing, so we left the hotel after breakfast, firstly to drop our clothes off at a local laundry and then to find a tour to Negombo Lagoon. This is achieved by supporting Sri Lanka’s cash economy – a tour agent, a tuk tuk driver and a boat…
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After a solid night’s sleep we were up and had breakfast at the hotel. They did ring the room at about 8:30 to ‘politely’ remind us that they close at 9:30. Today’s main activity was to visit the Negombo Fish Markets which are recognised as one of the larger fish markets in Asia. The local…
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Finally, the days have rolled around again and it’s time for holidays. With a scheduled 10:30 flight out of Brisbane it was pretty much ‘get up and go’. It all started out pretty well, the Uber driver was on time, but that was about where the on-time part of the day ended. We were taking…
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Today is our last full day in Central Australia so we decided to wrap things up with a trip to Kings Canyon. In my mind this location was made famous by the red dress worn by Guy Pearce in the 1994 movie ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’, but in reality it is an impressive geological…
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This morning we wanted to get the Uluru sunrise photo to round out the photo set. It was three degrees when we left the resort, but we are getting better at adding enough layers to stay alive. In the National Park, there are designated photo places to avoid people stopping randomly on the roadsides and…
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With the outside temperature forecast for about 2 degrees, we decided that a sleep in was in order for this morning. We eventually went to get some breakfast at the cafe and then went to the IGA to stock up on some lunch goods. Our plan today was to do the walk around the base…
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I think I mentioned yesterday that sunrise here is quite late. Neither of us slept particularly well, which for me is a common experience on the first night away. We decided we head Kata Tjuta for some sunrise photos. We arrived at the park entrance a little early, so had to wait in a queue…
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I have always felt decidedly un-australian for not having visited the next most famous Australian thing after the Sydney Opera House, so after finishing up my last job having given 3 months notice and our 25th wedding anniversary creeping up on us, we decided it was time to visit Uluru (formerly known as Ayres Rock).…