So first the end of the Unawatuna story:
After we packed our stuff and decided where to go next, the rain stopped for a bit and we decided to go and see the beach. A weave surprised Luisa and as she jumped her phone felt our of her pocket and was never seen again. I tried to get it back from the ocean, but the weaves have been too rough and I could not see anything.
Just the day before I left Luisas last dry pants and my completely new shoes in a Tuk Tuk. We hope Sri Lanka is not all about loosing things.
So we left Unawatuna with a bus to Mirissa. We found a very chilled beach and some hours without rain. After talking to the guy at the bar we made the decision to got to Tissamarama in order to do a Safari a the Yala national park. So we needed to take a bus to Matara first. Then change in another. As usual we arrived when it was already dark. The second we stepped out of the bus we got offered a Safari tour. As it was late and we where tired we took it.
So today started a 4:30 am and we had a nice Safari with goanas, water buffalos, jaguar, deer, birds, crocodiles and even a bear! I really enjoyed it, even with the 'need for speed' driving style of our guide.
Right after we came back we left to get a bus to Wellewaye to change to Ella. We hope to be able to travel with trains from there on.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
16.05.16 First days in Sri Lanka
Unawatuna - another rainy morning. We just wanted to leave to the beach in Unawantuna to see more then just our room in the Sea View (2.000 Rs) and the restaurant, where we lived in clover just the night before, but just in that very moment the monsoon rain started again.
So far we weren´t able to see a lot of the places we went, as there was heavy rain.
We arrived at the 14th in Colombo in the middle of the night and made, as the only travelers, our way through Colombo till Mount Lavinia with the public transports. There we met Graeme, a couchsurfer who kindly gave us a shower and a bed to sleep in for some hours, as we hadn´t found any sleep during the flights. He showerd us the beach and we kept heading south with the bus, as we missed the last train that day.
In Hikkaduwa lived the Russian family who invited us over couchsurfing to sleep in their empty hostel. The season already ended here. And it didn´t tool us long to figure out why: rain. It started as we arrived and was still going on as we woke up. So as the water and Wi-Fi broke with the storm, we left Eduard and his family to head south.
Galle was our next stop. But with rain and backpacks we didn´t want to do much. We just peeked at the UNESCO world heritage - the Fort. Then we took the next bus to Unawatuna, where the rain was already waiting for us.
So far we weren´t able to see a lot of the places we went, as there was heavy rain.
We arrived at the 14th in Colombo in the middle of the night and made, as the only travelers, our way through Colombo till Mount Lavinia with the public transports. There we met Graeme, a couchsurfer who kindly gave us a shower and a bed to sleep in for some hours, as we hadn´t found any sleep during the flights. He showerd us the beach and we kept heading south with the bus, as we missed the last train that day.
In Hikkaduwa lived the Russian family who invited us over couchsurfing to sleep in their empty hostel. The season already ended here. And it didn´t tool us long to figure out why: rain. It started as we arrived and was still going on as we woke up. So as the water and Wi-Fi broke with the storm, we left Eduard and his family to head south.
Galle was our next stop. But with rain and backpacks we didn´t want to do much. We just peeked at the UNESCO world heritage - the Fort. Then we took the next bus to Unawatuna, where the rain was already waiting for us.
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