Sorry about the serious lack of pictures, because I'm only using a tablet uploading the pictures onto the blog is an absolute mare, takes forever. I'll sort something soon.
ok so we spent one more day in Negombo. There isn't really much to see or do here, it's only a small town, so we thought we'd look for a beach. We walked in the general direction of the beach and came across the Negombo prison and courthouse, a couple schools and a field were all the kids play cricket. We went a bit further and went to the local fish market, it was crazy. they were selling goats, chicks and bunnies too. So cute!
Just beyond the market was one of the shanti towns. Lee was hesitant to go in incase the locals got funny but they were lovin' it, especially the kids. It looked like a really poor area, the majority were just living in tin huts, there was the odd brick house. Loveto show some photos but y'know!
That night at the hostel we met a lad from Italy called Matteo. He was also heading south so we said we'd leave together the next day. To get to Unawatuna we took a bus back to Colombo and from there a bus to Matala were we got off here at Unawatuna. We didn't see Colombo when we flew in, we said we'd stop here on our flight out but we got a little glimpse of it going to the bus station, it is mental. So many people and vehicles and noise and smells. The bus station had that many buses in it I've no idea how it operates, it was like bumper cars. Saying that it did take half an hour to just get out the station and we were leaving from bus stop number 2 so you can imagine.
Did my first wee in a public toilet here at the trainstation. It's one of them hole in the ground situations. Needless to say i pissed on my foot. Good job I was wearing flip flops. I thought I had the squat and pee scenario mastered from boozy nights out, obviously not.
The bus ride was an experience in itself. It took around 5 hours, but we enjoyed it. The bus was well dodgy and incredibly sweaty. National Express it was not. 730 rupees for two of us, which is around £3.70. Bargain. Towards the end of the trip the bus pulled off road and everyone started go get off. At first I thought there was a problem with the bus or something, then we realised this was their services. Where we were stopped was on the coast, and inbetween the shrubery you could see a beautiful stretch of beach, and there was a little shop. We got samosa type things and their version of custard creams and ate them whilst we chatted to our bus friends and watched the wild cows wondering amongst us, then the bus started to pull off so we had to leg it and jump on in motion, Sri Lankan stylie!
They get that and we get bloody nutsford services on the M6.
So our
hostel here in Unawatuna is nice. It has a private bathroom which is always a
plus, mosquito nets and a veranda. The people that own it are a little ald
couple, they're so sweet. When we got here they didn't even know we had a
reservation because they don't know how to use the internet, despite advertising
their guest house on hostelbookers haha.
Yesterday we went to Unawatuna
beach which is meant to be famous for it's beauty, but sadly the tsunami wiped
away half of the beach. Even when it's low tide there's pretty much no sand. It
was still nice to see though cos it was just all locals having a swim and
drinking rum and playing cards.
This morning I woke up early and I swore
I could hear monkey noises. I went out and theres 4 of 5 monkeys eating in the
trees. There's a jungle close to here so apparently they wonder over here alot.
We had bananas with breakfast so we put some out and they came quite close. It
was so cool. I feel like we've seen so much already and we've only been away for
..is it 3 nights?? I lose track.
Today we went down to a different beach
here, not as nice as the ones we saw on the way in here, again this one had been
taken by the tsunami. The water is so close to the buildings, it's a matter of
time before the place disappears.
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