First Few Days in Sri Lanka - by Quillian

My family and I are in Sri Lanka. The towns we have been to so far are Colombo, Kandy, and Sigiriya. In Colombo, we landed and stayed the night at a hotel a few minutes away from the train station so we could have enough time to get our tickets the next morning. When we got onto the train we were very hot and we did not know if we were allowed to open our windows. Eventually a deaf person came to the window and started pushing it up so we knew we could open it.  Then the person came into the train and asked us to donate money for a school for the deaf. It was very strange. The train had to stop at some stations along the way so the hawkers took their chance and got on board. Hawkers are people that sell stuff. The were selling food wrapped in banana leaves, water, and soda. Our ticket only went to the town right before Kandy so we took our first tuk tuk ride to go to Kandy. We hung out at the hotel/home stay for a while and swam in the pool. In the evening we walked around the Kandy Lake and saw bats. 

The next day we had a tuk tuk tour of the city. We went to a pagoda with a giant Buddah where we got blessed and received a bracelet and third eye. Then we went to the botanical garden. There we was giant bamboo, bats (flying foxes) and excellent treehouse trees. At a spice garden we learned about medicinalf Ayurvedic plants. We got a demonstration about how to make Sri Lankan curry. I also got my first massage. It was all very fun, I loved it. At the home stay there was even a pool with floaties!!!

After Kandy we headed to Sigiriya. You will have to stay tuned for my next post and Tre’s history lesson.

Giant Bamboo

Cannonball tree. Watch out for your heads!

Learning to shred coconut for coconut sambal

Drinking a king coconut at a roadside stand

Looking out the train window

The view from my first tuk tuk ride (check the mirror)

The giant buddha in Kandy

 

There are fruit stands everywhere!

Very hot train