Farewell for now Thailand...on to Sri Lanka

After an entire day of traveling out of Thailand which included more boat rides, buses, airplane rides, taxis, shuttles that we thought were 10 minutes away that really turned out to be over an hour.  It felt like we got an entire tour of Bangkok from that shuttle ride that never ended.  Finally we reached the airport for another plane heading to Sri Lanka.  Here is what the itinerary of our journey looked like by the time we arrived in Sri Lanka.  Basically that is also how we felt.  

We arrived very late in the evening to our little lodge in Sri Lanka, had a good nights sleep and decided to make the most of our stop since we only had one full day to explore it.  We had a full day of sight seeing in Colombo.  We hired a hilarious Tuk Tuk driver to take us around for the day.  We went to beautiful sacred temples, museums, we wandered the streets, ate amazing fish curry at this little hole in the wall resturant where we were literally the only 2 women in there.  They were so amazingly friendly and nice to the 2 western women who wandered into this place wondering if the food would make them sick or not.  (It did not)  Not to mention they gave us newspaper to wipe our hands instead of napkins.  

Our driver for the day thought he needed to be our tour guide and talked non-stop the entire time.  He led us to the ocean where we were introduced to the Arabian Sea for our final destination before we decided no more tuk tuk times.  We took the streets after that on foot, had a lot of stares, wrong turns, and lots of beautiful and strange things in our path, and wandered back to our lodge where a cab was waiting for us to be taken to the airport for our flight into india.  

I must mention the temple we visited felt so ancient and spiritual.  It was a beautiful place.  

The photos just cannot do it justice but here are some I am sharing.  All the Buddhas!  

Debbie and I loved our time in Sri Lanka and although it was short lived, we really covered some ground and got a good sense of the culture and the beautiful people, and we felt it was a good introduction into the intensity of India that would be our existence for the next month.  Also one more thing...bobble heads...Stay tuned!