Sri Lanka

One day after my Vipassana course on 31 of July in the evening my friends Emma and Manu arrived. The next day in the evening Maria and Laya arrived from Spain. We are finally a group again, the same group as about 1 year ago when I travelled trough Iran and met them in Yazd.  Just imagine how amazing it is to meet people during my travel and then year later I see them again and this time in Sri Lanka. They are on holiday and I'm still on my journey. This was not a coincedent but planned meeting. From the first of August until the 9 of August we travelled together. So in my next stories I will tell about this journey trough Sri Lanka and upload some pictures of this journey. 

 

Were I'm now?

 

I'm in Kandy, in the middle of Sri Lanka on the 9 of August I left Nuwar Elee and my friends  for Colombo to extend my visa. Due to the troubles in the north of Sri Lanka there is a lot of security people on the street, searching many vehicles and people. I stayed in the YMCA in the Fort area. The next day I extended my visa with one month for about 4500 rps for Dutch and English People it is very expensive to extend other nationality like Germans they pay the halve very strange. In Colombo I enjoyed Barista for a proper coffee and I had high tea at The Galle Face hotel (500 rps) all you can eat I had a beer and good conversation with a director of an NGO how payd for my beers. The next day I returned for the lunch buffet all you can eat for 825 rps (6 euro), Colombo is great i managed one meal a day. 

In some other tourist places in Sri Lanka they ask 450 rps for some noodles. The Galle face hotel is a 4 star hotel.

 

On Saturday 12 august I returned by train back to Kandy were I stay one again in the Burmese Rest. The cheapest place in town 150 rps a night. On monday I went to Indian assistent High commissioner for an Indian Visa. Next Monday I can pick it up.

 

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Galle face hotel

the city of Kandy