Sigiriya Rock Fortress Tops List of “Hanging Monasteries”
byLast year, I spent my 33rd birthday climbing Sigiriya, an ancient rock-top fortress in Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle. Yesterday, Sigiriya popped up on this…
Last year, I spent my 33rd birthday climbing Sigiriya, an ancient rock-top fortress in Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle. Yesterday, Sigiriya popped up on this…
Meet Doug. Doug is an Engineer and Humanitarian Aid Worker from San Francisco who is stationed in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Doug is helping to…
I could also call this episode “So Long and Thanks for all the Dahl: Part 2,†(a la our departure from India) but I’ve written enough praise about Sabah’s cooking. I could describe to you the goodbyes and gift-giving of our last week in Nuwara Eliya, but I’m tired of farewell, inured. I don’t think describing our final day crunch-time in the PALM office or our last-minute preparations for Africa would be very exciting either, though some mention of Harinee’s delivery is due, a healthy girl who the astrologers name “Dimanti Thisarie.â€
Part of my volunteer assignment at PALM Foundation was to design a new website, write the content, take the photographs, and get it up. It all happened down to the wire, but it happened. I invite you to browse palmsrilanka.org, the official site of the organization, and palmguesthouse.com, home of PALM’s foray into tourism.
My flat map of Sri Lanka denies the island its normal north-is-up “teardrop†romance, but laying it on its side, it looks like big-headed whale, don’t you think? Colombo the eye, rail tracks the teeth. . .a blunt-headed giant of the sea, swimming south while casually raising its tail to India.
From the BBC: “The Sri Lankan military says it has begun an aerial assault on rebel positions in north-eastern Sri Lanka, telling the BBC…
Violence in the East has been on the rise in recent week, at the hands of Tamil Tiger terrorists, and today, the first attack…
It’s raining in Nuwara Eliya, most evenings and nights; bone-chilling, pre-monsoon stretches of wet that an expat friends compares to Scotland. After pleasant, light-filled mornings, storm clouds gather in the afternoons, but different from the breezy, faraway affairs of March.
When our Nuwara Eliya landlady (who is also our boss) informed us (very nicely) that she was kicking us out of the Toppass Guesthouse…