Below you will find a complete summary of our 14-day trip independent trek from Lukla to Everest Base Camp. The Everest Base Camp itinerary and accommodation list should give enough information of our journey to plan your own. Most of the places we stayed were good but we were quite careful to check the quality before agreeing on most occasions.…
We couldn’t recommend the sights, sounds and flavours of Sri Lanka more. It is such a diverse country with cool, rainy hills in the centre, hot sunny beaches around the edges, a varied and vibrant capital city and even a scorching desert in the north (though we didn’t get there). Below is a complete guide to Sri Lanka 2019 with…
One of the most Instagrammed tourist attraction in Sri Lanka is the nine arch bridge designed by the British over 100 years ago. The majority of people take a train from Colombo or Kandy to Ella to enjoy the scenic rail and see the bridge. We decided to cut it up into stages starting first in Nuwara Eliya, aka: Little…
Our second full day in Kandy was slightly more relaxing than our first. The walk up to the Big Buddha was lovely and it was interesting to watch the traditional Kandyan dancing. The Best Hostel keeps on getting better We woke up at a more reasonable hour today remembering that breakfast was included in our ten pound a night price.…
Kandy is really a brilliant city, worth coming to visit and with such a lot to do. As you may have noticed from the previous Sri Lanka Blogs we do not have a very large budget so we decided not to take a tour as most people seem to do, but instead we explored this amazing city ourselves and met…
The top tourist attraction in Sri Lanka, and likely the most expensive one as well, is the Lion Rock in Sigiriya. First Sri Lankan Food We woke up early as we were checking out and wanted to climb the rock before the day was up. Our hostel, as basic as it was, offered free breakfast which we decided to take…
After years of thinking about it, and months of planning and booking for it, we are finally off. We quit our jobs, rented out our house and set off for our year long world adventure. Sitting on the plane with metal cutlery and then in a comfortable designer seat in Zurich, it was hard to imagine the experiences that lay…
