In Chennai, the former Madras, we meet with the chaos of big cities, dirt, noise and contam ination
.... absolutely necessary to find out what happened to our "little problem" with the visa , which has just a week before we return ......
From here we had with various options ..... if we get the visa extension, the Andaman islands, Maldives roll paradise before the resorts and if we gave it to Sri Lank
to, 1 hhorita flight from Chennai and from there ask for a new visa.
Fortunately, the extension of 2 weeks is an easy solution, just have to go to Delhi to ask but unfortunately they cost flights to Andaman and boat EurAc 500 lost 10 days, which is counting on us month and a half's journey as long as it is not lost?.
So that and the 80 eurillos ticket .... we ended up deciding to Sri Lanka, Ramayana style such as Hanuman and
n search of Sita who went to the airport to buy the ticket directly ... . one day struggles of these that make you think what the fuck do here .... if you can not enter the airport 3 hours before boarding, if you can not play .... and the cards one after another until 1:00
was flying.
We arrived at Colombo airport at 2 free travel guide or the slightest idea that there was here and decided to spend what was left overnight in Negombo, 14 km from the airport, on the beach.
Awakening
us new surprises in store .... after 4 months in India are fully adequate to it, and although some are very tourist areas the country is full of travelers, because it is not easy to travel here. Sri Lanka is conceived and disenhada for tourism, more developed and more infrastructure to support other visitors ... a tourism more and more tourists and younger backpackers, with a consequent increase in prices and roll change ..... but if you like to drink a beer at the karaoke or play bingo for Negombo this way!
We went to find our place in the country.
bus took us to the capital, Colombo, a chaos of riksaws that tuc-tucs here are very similar to the Indian run-chase ... just go south to the beach! that's why we came.
Trains in Sri Lanka were a good surprise, and this
journey south two hours along the coast was amazing ... even ride the train and see the houses of wood glued to the beach and think that four anhos sea takes all ahead is tremendous, and although the country is fully recovered almost everyone has a story to tell about the tsunami.
Hikaduwa We reached a beautiful beach full of surfers and a younger environment, with its turquoise water and palm trees ... not even so much so pegabamos next stop Unawatuna, just, beautiful beach and palm trees turquoise but a little too much construction on the beach and an atmosphere more families with Ninh and retired couples ... so moving again, and
Welligama Mirissa, where we spent five days and contacted for the first time Sinhalese culture of Sri Lanka going.
Here are our adopted family, with mom, dad, Chattu, Shehan and Piyumal that apart from opening the doors of his house we opened your heart, we feel at home
from the first time, five days
spent enjoying the food of the breast, making two meals a day that was more than enough, breakfast and dinner an hour late afternoon that lasted until the wee hours, with mom and dad singing clapping, games and our Chattu first colleague in Sri Lanka, Itai further evidence that the Israelites are not what people think, at least not all ... and a couple of Swedes who come later ... every night cooking classes began at dusk , with the old kitchen fire, breast ensenyar us all the best secrets for cooking rice and curry, apart from laugh a lot with his English a little precarious but lovely "coocking coocking, after eating, sleeping Then me happy !!!!!" a love woman .... and then as from the beginning Chattu told us we were part of the family, so the room that were built on top of the house we had to open ourselves, and so we did, but special was that we were the stars of a Buddhist ritual based on the position of the estrelllas, because everything was calculated to get the best of luck for the new room, the door had to open exactly at eight ... so we Chattu wore white to the two and Adrian had to subr stairs first, with the right leg provided with a coconut in his hand he had to explode on the ground that tension! and see if it does not exploits was sweating bad luck ... but he did ... and then I cut the ribbon and opened the room, just in time, drank water together with sacred flowers Chattu prepare and bless the room with all our good energy to this amazing family ...
decided to go into the country, Ratnapura was the next stop, change of scenery, hills with plantations of tea (from Ceylon), waterfalls and rhododendron forests .....
In Ratnapura, where no speak English and where despite Sinhalese kindly spent some time "curious" trying to find a place to sleep that would fit our budget. The next day we got back, a small town with a famous waterfalls, Mountains and a little chilly at night, where we spent a couple of days a little more active and much remember La Palma, it is very similar.
From here, a train ride dramatically between national parks and more cascades led us to Hatton, near Adam's Peak, a montanha of 2250 meters pilgrimage site sacred to Christians, Muslims, Buddhists e Hindus, with a giant footprint at the summit say they are of Adam or Buddha or not who I know is that were 4800 and pico scales and quite steep ..
Sigal Adri and had no strength to wake up at 2:00 and walk 3 short hours to the summit
to see the sunrise, so I got to go alone this time way through the 80-anhos grandparents, people with disabilities and families complete wrapped in blankets and hats and gloves.
Upon reaching the summit where the trail was there a few temples and all crowded so get a solo in a rock to see a beautiful sunrise with sea of \u200b\u200bclouds and 4800 included scales below that were waiting for me Ninh become the last days on the beach ..... 8 hours Bus back to Hikkaduwa where no moveremios us to leave, because elections are the country and apparently this thing ..... chunga recently that ended the war with the Tamil Tigers, and now they are l; uchando President, a rather dubious kind of honesty that all of the credit for ending the war and general of the armies, war hero and military, so not me who will be worse ...
Meanwhile, here in the beach is not bad, but as always, we take very much .................
I want !!!!!!