Destination: Sri Lanka
There are [61] stories and [1875] photos from Sri Lanka
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Mon, 4 Aug 2008 | By scholarships | Views [1420]
Susannah has returned from her Travel Writing assignment in Sri Lanka where she volunteered in Kosgoda, a small coastal village devastated by the tsunami. She got her hands dirty working on everything from building houses to teaching English and saving ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, travel writing, sri lanka, kosgoda, scholarship, podcast
Wed, 15 Mar 2006 | By leelefever | Views [1347] | Comments [4]
Our trip to Sri Lanka would not have been so special had it not been for two people. These two people helped us understand Sri Lanka and travel around it. They are both reliable, honest, trustworthy and nice people. I can't say enough about their service.... Read more >
Tags: People
Sat, 13 May 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [1151] | Comments [1]
I was staying in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka and I began to feel feverish and ill so decided to go to the hospital in Colombo because the fever did not subside. The results of the initial blood tests indicated Dengue fever and I was admitted to hospital after ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures, true claim stories, fever
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 | By safetyhub | Views [1089] | Comments [1]
On 26 March, shortly before 01:00 local time, two light aircraft (one according to the government) belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Ealam (LTTE) dropped several bombs on Sri Lanka's Katunayake air force base situated next to Colombo international ... Read more >
Tags: travel safety, red24, sri lanka, colombo, tamil tigers
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 | By scholarships | Views [1085]
Susannah Palk, winner of the 2008 Travel Writing Scholarship has just had her travel article published in both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Melbourne based paper). It's a beautiful story about her volunteering assignment in Sri Lanka. Congratulations ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing, scholarship, world nomads, sri lanka, susannah palk, winner
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 | By stephen_haynes | Views [877] | Comments [3]
Wow, it is hard work keeping this site up to date when there is so much relaxing, surfing and partying to do here! So, I made it into Sri Lanka meeting up with another Aussie dude Andrew at the airport who would become my on/off travel buddy for most ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 | By susannah_palk | Views [727]
Today we have a change in plan. No construction work today (my arms are quite relieved). Instead we head across the road to the turtle hatchery. Here we empty all the turtle tanks, clean them, by scrub them with brushes and dried coconut shells (surprisingly ... Read more >
Wed, 2 Jan 2008 | By jeffbrad | Views [633] | Comments [2]
Sat 22nd Dec - Rapid south Indian breakfast at the hotel and free drop-off at the airport international terminal. Sri Lankan Airlines Flight UL122 due to leave at 10:30am for Sri Lanka, so straight to check-in via the usual baggage screening at ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 | By amsa-ihp-2005 | Views [604]
Sri Lanka is a tiny island in the Indian Ocean with a landmass the size of Tasmania but with a population near that of the whole of Australia! Sri Lanka was one of the nations hardest hit by the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 with over 30,000 lives lost ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 | By rebmason80 | Views [534]
So this is how it all came about....
Staying in Hikkaduwa, on the south coast of Sri Lanka Ant and i decided
to venture off the beach and visit a recommended turtle farm a short
bus ride away. Within hours of visiting and returning to the ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 | By rebmason80 | Views [530]
A jeep for seven, gears crunching as we roll backwards and forwards, smoke chugging out the back…not the ideal way to lure a leopard but still the search continued…… Yala National Park is located on the south east coast of Sri Lanka covering an ... Read more >
Tags: ant stone, john hatt
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simon_hennig | Views [514] | Comments [3]
24/07/2008 Colombo, Sri Lanka. And so, in a true spur of the moment decision, i have ended up in Sri Lanka. After meeting an Aussie couple in the back of a taxi on Koh Phangan who live and work here in Colombo, and then finding out ... Read more >
Fri, 7 Mar 2008 | By rebmason80 | Views [383]
‘Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies’. Ahhh, that psychadelic song by The Beatles. I am desperately trying to lull myself to sleep with that line as I lie beside Ant though he could well be Indiana Jones as ... Read more >
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 | By flashorton | Views [369] | Comments [6]
8.00am: Wake up cold, with the fan blowing hard through the mozzie net. The sound of the surf crashing against the shore, the fan rattling, the yowling and screeching and squeaking of the dogs and crows and chipmunks. Feel the night’s bites start to ... Read more >
Tags: surfing, sri lanka, arugam bay
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 | By jeffbrad | Views [330]
Mon 7th Jan - Back in Sri Lanka for a couple of days ahead of going to Thailand. Now at GMT+5.5 hours. Stopping back in Negombo again but at a different place, the 'Silver Sands' hotel. Good price and faciliies and location ok. Need to relax and ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By alpha_ | Views [325] | Comments [1] | Video
Just getting a mail from the embassy of India, I have to be in Colombo at 9 Am this Friday , so i don`t have so much time in the south.... so I take a train to welligama, wondefull beach where i have a contact... ( Ok it`s not fair again to take the ... Read more >
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 | By leelefever | Views [317] | Comments [5]
Sri Lanka is even more foreign than I imagined. We've hired a driver named Mervin who is driving us arond the island. It's a good thing too because if we had to drive here, or even take the bus, it may be a life threatening experience. The barely ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 | By rebmason80 | Views [317] | Comments [1]
The teardrop of India, Sri Lanka is also known as the pearl, these poetic euphanisms really don’t do it justice. The country and its people are amazing; it has everything to offer and more. However at the moment sense of danger lurks underneath the surface, ... Read more >
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 | By julie_barber | Views [301]
Sorry it's been so long between emails - we spent much of the last couple of weeks in Sri Lanka enjoying some spectacular beaches, so internet cafes just couldn't compete! When I last wrote we were about to take a train from Nuwara Eliya (the peculiarly ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 | By julie_barber | Views [288]
I think last time I wrote we were heading off to the Indian backwaters in Kerala - was fantastic. They've converted all of these old rice barges (kettuvalums) into great boats to stay on while you check out the life of the people who live in thbackwater ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 | By scarlett333 | Views [285] | Comments [4]
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 | By rebmason80 | Views [282] | Comments [1]
“Five thousand two hundred steps, is that all?”…. I was of course joking. Sitting comfortably in the taxi with Steve, Maureen and Ant we could see Adams Peak looming in the distance, towering over the other mountains. This is what we were coming to conquer….... Read more >
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 | By kev_desilva | Views [281]
Off to do a bit of travelling in Sri Lanka (will avert civil war!), India (will solve the Kashmir dispute, will get rid of nuclear weapons and call centres) and maybe Nepal (will pound the King into submission and install multi-party democracy yeah!).... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 | By paavimate-v | Views [280] | Comments [1]
Hiya, paavimate Vlad here. We're looking for volunteers and good souls to come down to Sri Lanka and lend a hand. paavima.org is a grass-roots organization (basically a bunch of diver friends) trying to help out a community in need. We're using dive ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 | By kev_desilva | Views [273] | Comments [1]
Travelling with Matt who has a 47 inch waist...bear witness.
Tags: The Planning Phase
