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ELLERTONTonight I’m eating at Helga’s Folly — I’ve been looking forward to it for months — but I [...]
LOVING LIFE AT THE ELLERTON HOTEL
CHRISTMAS KANDY (NO BEER FOR YOU)
THE LONG, SLOW ROAD TO KANDY
TRUSTING IN MY TRAVEL INTUITION
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ROAD TO DALHOUSIEThere it is! Adam’s Peak – Sri Pada – looming in the horizon, dark, sinister and foreboding.
HAPUTALE TO HORTON: SRI LANKA BY TRAIN
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MELHEIM RESORTThe manager at the Melheim Resort suggests seeing Sri Lanka by train rather than riding in the crappy Toyota to [...]
A $100 WALK THROUGH HORTON PLAINS
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MELHEIM RESORTMy van arrives at 5:45 a.m. to take me to Horton Plains National Park. Hiring a driver ($50) kills me, [...]
FLIRTING WITH DEATH IN TEA COUNTRY
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CHAAYA WILD YALAMy husbands and I climb into our crappy Toyota and head north towards Tea Country. The three of us have [...]
BEWARE WILD BOAR AND GERMAN WIVES
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CHAAYA WILD YALA POOLPost-safari, a lazy afternoon awaits me. I grab a chaise lounge near the pool but in the shade [...]
STRANDED! IN YALA NATIONAL PARK
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CHAAYA WILD YALA CHALET5:00 a.m comes painfully early. My escort arrives, brings me to my Yala National Park safari [...]
BLISS AT CHAAYA WILD YALA
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DRIVE TO CHAAYA WILD YALAUPDATE, MAY 2013: Chaaya Wild Yala is now Cinnamon Wild Yala.
The [...]
SRI LANKA TEMPLE OF THE DAMNED
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IN THE CRAPPY TOYOTA“That’s it!” I yell.
Pradeep slams on the brakes and reverses down the highway to Apa Villa Thalpe. I don’t [...]
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