Normally when you turn on the lights in or near the tropical rain-forest soon its teeming with insects fluttering in the light and with geckos lurking on the walls. Not so here. I see very few insects in Unawatuna but also in other areas of Sri Lanka, even in a wetland like the Bundala National… Read More Where are the insects?
On most websites about Sri Lanka, the train ride from Kandy to Ella is considered the most beautiful in the world. Personally, I was quite disappointed. During most of the journey, the primary forest was completely cut down, mostly all the way to the top of the hills. Now planted with huge tea plantations, and… Read More Most beautiful Train ride in the World?
It feels like being in an airplane after landing, taxiing to the gate. But I am sitting in a train On arrival, even before the vehicle comes to a stop, people immediately get up from their seats, only to stand 10 minutes or more in the aisle waiting til the queue finally starts to move.… Read More Arrival in Ella by train
Wintertime in Switzerland. I have enough of the wet-cold gray weather and bad-tempered people I have to get out of here! But where to? For the sake of convenience, I actually wanted to travel to a country I already knew, but in a somehow unfathomably way, Sri Lanka had been in my head for some… Read More Hibernating in Sri Lanka
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