Sri Lanka - Have you been?

[erikaa]

Hello all,

I will be travelling to Sri Lanka in exactly two weeks - looking forward to it! I haven't really had time to plan my trip yet, so if you have any suggestions on places to see or to avoid, things to do, food to try or anything else you can think of I will be very grateful. I'll be there for 17 days and there will be 2 of us - girls in our late 20's.

We're flying to Colombo and then I think we might have to head north-east as the weather should be better (drier) there.

Many many many thanks!

Erika

[KidKruger]

Sigariya, Kandy and it's temple (of the tooth ?), the Buddhist temples in caves near the village beginning with 'B'.

I would have mentioned Hikkaduwa, Unawatuna, Galle and Matara, but they were bashed pretty bad and would be unrecognisable except maybe Galle.

Also the elephant sanctuary is lovely, esp if you like taking photos.

Also the botanical gardens in Colombo, one of the 'park keepers' will tout their knowledge of the park but are worth a go - first time I ever had fresh cinnamon.

There's also a botanical gardens on road between Kandy and Colombo which is worth an afternoon.

Crap snorkelling in summer on West coast.

[bonniebird]

My husband comes from Sri Lanka, he went back a few years ago but he is useless ;-) there is a programme on at the moment on Good Food Channel My Sri Lanka with Peter Kuruvita and he travels around cooking, its interesting cos you do see bits, friends have visited the Millenium Elephant Sanctuary, its fab apparently :)) friends of mine who live in England run a fabulous little charity http://www.dogstarfoundation.com/ with the help of volunteers and the temple monks at Randeniya Temple they are fabulous :)

[Annette Curtain]

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