Istuti means thank you in Singhalese, on of the 2 main languages in Sri Lanka, the other one is Tamil. Thank you, thank you, thank you Sri Lanka for being amazing, your people, your nature, your food, your relaxed atmosphere. Our expectations were blown away (we just didn’t like the tourist attraction crazy prices). We…
Category: Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Safari
This morning we woke up early to climb Little Adams Peak, its an easy 2 hour roundtrip hike that takes you to the top of one of the multiple peaks around the area. The view of Ella rock is nice. After finally some normal American breakfast, we headed to Tissa (short for Tissamaharama and I’m not…
Found By Mistake
Today we had the challenge of finding a normal breakfast to eat. Our hotel didn’t include breakfast so we decided to find a place in town to eat. We were recommended to go to the place we had dinner and when they showed us what they served for breakfast it looked identical to our dinner…
Ceylon Tea
First, a little bit of history: Between 1948 and 1972, Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations that shared a monarch with the United Kingdom. In 1948, the British Colony of Ceylon was granted independence as Ceylon. In 1972, the country became a republic within the Commonwealth, and its name was changed to Sri Lanka….
The Climb To Sigiriya
We had some traditional homemade breakfast before heading out. I cant remember the name but it was basically some black grains compressed into a tube with coconut milk on top. it was really tasty and apparently super difficult to make, so we are lucky Lanka (Guesthouse host) offered to make it for us. Manoj (our…
Destination: Sri Lanka
We had a transit day in Bangkok… Sarah got a pedicure to help recover her feet from all the bare feet temple walking (it was a noticeably good pedicure!), Eitan used the day to book some hostels for later in the trip, we went shopping for some clothes and we ate our last delicious Thai…
WHERE IS NOODLE 