For the final part of our Sri Lanka adventure we took the bus from the main road turning near Sigyria.  We caught the number 49 bus at about 6am which is the ‘fast’ bus from Trincomalee to Colombo.  It cost us 180 rupees per person (approx. 90p).  At the start the bus was absolutely rammed […]

During our time in the Sigiriya area we stayed at Sigiri Lake Paradise run by Amilia and her husband.  Of all the places we stayed in Sri Lanka this was easily our favorite, so we decided to stay for two nights and would happily have stayed longer if we hadn’t needed to return to Colombo.The […]

From Kandy we took a bus to Dambulla for 200 rupees which took just under 2 hours. It was a lovely journey past lots of spice gardens. At Dambulla we changed buses and took a local one towards Sigiriya, we disembarked the bus at Kimbissa and took a tuk tuk the last 2-3 km down […]

After our beautiful trip to Lipton’s Seat we took the train from Haputale to Kandy.We decided to splash out on 2nd class for this long journey, approximately 5 and a half hours.  It cost 210 rupees per person (approx £1.05) and we had slightly wider seats and the carriages were very quiet the whole way.The […]

The main reason we decided to stay in Haputale was to visit Lipton’s Seat. We had read amazing things about World’s End, but we decided the cost was too high and visited Lipton’s Seat as an alternative and boy were we glad we did!We were collected by a tuk tuk at 5:30 am in the […]