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Photo Essay: Sights of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Blog: GoBackpacking - 20 December 2011
With around 6 million inhabitants, Colombo is not even close to being one of the larger cities in Asia – yet there’s no denying that the city is full of vibrant energy and always action packed! The streets of central Colombo are characterized by bright colorful signs, streams of rickshaws, tons of pedestrians and rowdy buses that [...]
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Review of Mount Lavinia Guest House, Sri Lanka
Blog: The Travel Project - 5 December 2011
A small review of Mount Lavinia Guest House in Colombo, Sri Lanka.This article originally appeared on The Travel Project
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Colombo to Anuradhapura by Train
Blog: The Travel Project - 5 December 2011
Burnt out train wrecks from a war not long forgotten, butterflies and birds of intense blues and reds, heards of cattle feeding in the fields of green and waves from local villagers tending their rice paddies await for you along rails from Colombo to the ancient city of AnuradhapuraThis article originally appeared on
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This is Colombo
Blog: The Travel Project - 29 November 2011
Colombo is a city that is a faded relic of a time gone past however everywhere you look there is something to feast your eyes upon.
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Travel in Sri Lanka: What To Expect
Blog: GoBackpacking - 28 November 2011
1. People Sri Lankan people are extremely friendly. In fact, out of every country I’ve ever traveled to, Sri Lankans may be the most willing to have a short conversation or just say “hello.” While traveling through the island you’ll be asked “You are from?,” countless times. I have never been to a country where [...]
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Cricket World Cup – Some Funny Moments
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 18 February 2011
Cricket World Cup Crazy Stuff! With the Cricket World Cup of 2011 approaching, I’ve put together a list of some funny Cricket World Cup moments. This year, the 2011 Cricket...
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Lady at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Blog: A Lady in London - 13 January 2011
After visiting the legendary city of Kandy, the next stop on my Asia itinerary was the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka. Famous for its impressive herd of pachyderms, the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage was conveniently located between Kandy and Colombo, which was my next stop. I decided to break up the drive by spending some [...]
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Lady in Colombo
Blog: A Lady in London - 3 January 2011
Following my visit to Langkawi, I headed to Sri Lanka to start what would be the longest portion of my winter sun holiday in Asia. After a three-and-a-half hour flight from Singapore, I arrived in Colombo late at night and took a taxi from the airport to my hotel, the Tintagel Colombo. There I found [...]
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The Dutch Period Museum, Colombo
Blog: itinerant - 11 March 2010
It is on Prince Street in Pettah, the marketplace in what was once the Fort area, and is no more princely, being daily overrun by plebeians for decades now. I had taken the hotel car, and we went slowly, slower than walking, seeing colored balloons, dress pieces for men at 200-rupees-each piled on the street [...]
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Sri Lanka, Island Paradise
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 3 February 2010
We have stepped into heaven. The air is warm and clear; the roads are orderly and clean. Our driver hasn’t honked his horn once. He even used his signal when switching lanes! What is this civilized planet we have stepped into?
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Colombo: Third world democracy…more records than the KGB
Blog: Backpackular Spectacular - 30 January 2010
A pot-bellied and typically short Sri Lankan policeman is dawdling towards my sister and I after our tuk-tuk was pulled over at a checkpoint. His automatic weapon is clearly visible. His leering eyes are looking us up and down. We’re young, white and female and I feel like an oddity. “Passport,” he barks, sausage-like fingers [...]
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Sri's Just not that into you
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 16 September 2009
Hi Ho, and welcome again to another installment of Snarky Tofu, the on-line column that answers the questions you weren't going to ask before you didn't ask them. This one comes to you straight from the front seat of a brightly colored bus somewhere between Chennai and Pondicherry in the beautiful Tamil Nadu state of India.
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