Getting train ticket to Nanuoya was trivial – but the train was well over packed and a bit of a pain to be honest. Mostly westerners with backpacks, and some selfish people sitting on the floor in doorways taking up lots of room. Annoying for others who could not get…
After getting back to Kandy and grabbing lunch, we dumped stuff at the guesthouse and walked up to the Ceylon Tea Museum. Lovely walk (albeit up hill) and good museum (800LKR each) and interesting guide around. Free tea after (yuk) and tourist-price gift shop. Was interesting, and worth the walk…
Here is a list of out top tips and advice that we’ve learned and may be useful ADVICE You can’t get the wrong bus. If you say the name of the place you are going, they will let you on if its going there – or not if its not.…
Getting back from Sigiriya to Dambulla was trivial – just walked to the road and waited for a bus – got a seat, bags in boot and taken to Dambulla. Just a word of warning, the bus officially stops in the town, but they offer to take you to the…
Getting the train to Matale was simple enough, 3rd class was fine and comfortable and we had an hours chat with a Buddhist monk who wanted to know all about Brexit! He was well travelled and clearly not a poor monk! At Matale we tried to get a PickMe lift…
Colombo Fort station is pretty busy, and there is one screen showing platform departures, and surprisingly the train turned up early, the first=class observation car was connected, and our seats were there and there was oodles of room! More surprisingly, the train left bang on time and swiftly headed to…