I’m stuck writing reports, more reports and more reports…argh save me..
Well I finally got out of the hotel for a change on Sunday, it was a nice clear day, which was good.
We headed up to Kandy, the hill city.
The main attraction I think is the Tooth Temple (Dalada Maligawa) and the cooler less humid climate due to the altitude. The place was packed as it’s a long holiday, Sinhalese new year fell on Wednesday and Thursday, so most people took Friday off and enjoyed a 5 day break.
It was a fairly long journey, around 3 hours, imagine a narrow winding road, not as steep and winding as the stretch to Genting, but pretty similar…but it lasts 3 hours, urgh.
whilst driving in Sri Lanka it’s quite normal to have regular near death experiences, look up and see a huge bus with bullbars storming at you..
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Deafened by the sounds of horns, choking on the exhaust fumes, it’s lovely, really.
There is a lot of derelict shops around the place, a lot warn down facades and places that look like they are about to fall apart..
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It’s a fairly scenic place, more grass than Malaysia and less densley farmed forests.
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The trip was nice apart from the horrible Tamil music blaring from the self-inclosed 6×9 under my nose..
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I’ve heard kids TV show theme tunes more musical than some of those songs…argh
Cricket is very much definately the national passtime, you see kids playing it everywhere.
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So after lunch at a chinese resturant (food was ‘ok’), we headed to Tooth Temple..
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It was heavily secured with metal detectors and two sets of guards before you reach the inner sanctum.
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There was also a nice pictorial history in one room with dozens of golden statues..
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As normal you had to remove your shoes too, but it was FUCKING HOT, I think my feet actually started smoking, the floor was like 6000 degrees.
After that we headed to a lake..
It was pretty and nice, but well it’s a lake, who hasn’t seen a lake before?
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We headed up to the top of the hill and checked out the view of Kandy city..
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Following that we headed to the botanical gardens, I didn’t take many pictures as it was a botanical garden, mostly trees and flowers and shit like that.
Also some bats, by some bats I mean like 30,000 bats geez they are noisy
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The leaning trees were kinda cool though.
There was also a nice pond..
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With some flowers and stuff..
I think I walked about 3 miles, that’s enough excercise for the rest of the decade.
Rest of the pictures are in the Gallery HERE.
It was a nice trip, was hell getting back though due to the long holiday and there were some kind of races going on up there..took us like 5+ hours, felt like I’d been shaken around in a peanut can for 5 hours when I got back to the hotel..ordered room service, watched some cheesy TV and knocked out.
Anyway glad to be back soon…kinda getting really really bored here…hope I don’t get shipped off again as soon as I land, that would suck..
Next assignment is supposed to be 2 months in UK, but I haven’t heard anything about it yet *sigh* I came to Malaysia because I wanted to live there…not spend 1 month out of 3 there. And being away sucks, can’t blog so regularly, my average daily traffic has gone from 450 to 230, oh well, at least it’ll keep my bandwidth down. I won’t blog some controversial crap just to get attention, then publically apologise to get more attention.
I blog for myself, I appreciate my posts, so there’s at least one 🙂 I just happen to be good at traffic whoring (without pissing people off)..
https://www.security-forums.com is the ultimate testament to that.
Anyway kinda off-topic, take care for now 🙂
no you came to malaysia FOR ME!!!! bwahahhahahhaha
no, you’re here for the hot chicas like moi.
im hot visit my blog plz.
p/s: wassup with your camera, the colours look weird.
Only one pic weird right, had to discard a lot because of that, under very bright light the sky goes kinda weird luminous pink colour..
Camera is kinda screwed, I guess I threw it around too much, the erection doesn’t work any more either.
erection doesnt work is worst. plz make it work.
i tot the sky at sri langka is PINK… hehe… 😛
i missed the 8 feet silver back gorilla….where are you my banana eating simian friend ?
In the land of small teteks, spicy food and pink skies 🙁
Hey this is a cool entry… not a bad place to cycle..
Thanks 🙂
Yeah there is a Tour de Lanka, it goes through Kandy I think.
Erection doesn’t work? Was that the Florida one?