Today we arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a country that we have never been to before. Colombo is the capital and main port and largest city. There are reminders of Portuguese, Dutch and British influence found around the city.
We are yet farther south than yesterday and of course it was
HOT!
Our tour today was in a private Tuk Tuk but first we had to
walk the length of two football fields to get out of the port. Then we had to take a taxi to another port
entrance to meet our guide/driver.
There are 800,000 people living in Colombo and 400,000 TukTuk's and I think they were all on the road to day.
In our first stop, we saw the train station – it looked like
something out of the early 1900’s and was still being used.
Then we traveled through the city to the largest Buddhist
Temple and was spectacular. We also
went to see the oldest protestant church in Sri Lanka, a Dutch church.
We kept driving seeing the houses of the very rich and
government buildings. We stopped on the
street to taste the juice of a King Coconut, which was a different taste from
any coconut we had ever tasted.
We stopped along a main shopping area and walked for about ½
hour before getting back into the Tuk Tuk and going to lunch.
Lunch was at a very nice local restaurant, although it was
a little fancier that we have been used to.
After that it was about 45 minutes to get back to the ship
and we quickly took showers and we had really been hot.
The show tonight was an individual singer, piano player from
Britain and he was very entertaining.
Dinner with Brian and Sandy was very good and then it was on
to the casino where Barb broke even and Ed lost.
Tomorrow is the first of 2 more sea days, so hopefully it
will be a relaxing day.
Night
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| Delivery person on the main street |
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| A Mosque |
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| Our Tuk Tuk and Driver/Guide Shane |
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| A large Buddhist Temple |
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| Street food - WOW was it hot |
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| Buying his painting |
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Prayers inside the Temple
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