Moving South
Today we said goodbye to the Shangri-la hotel and loaded up in a van that was taking us to Weligama Bay which is south of Colombo. On the way, we dropped off two of our suitcases at Aminda’s (now Aminda and Salani’s) house since we will be returning there before we leave to return home.
Riding in the van with us was Dave and Thilini, Kamillia (from Dubai-originally from Algeria) and Lyndsey and Aliyas from Melbourne, Australia (originally from Malaysia). It was about a 3 hour trip but most of it was on a freeway. It was very nice to get out of the busy city and see rural areas. We passed rice paddy fields, cows, oxen and at least one tea plantation.
Weligama is a smaller town with many hotels on the Indian Oceanside. Our hotel was a Marriott and was very beautiful and I felt sad that we were only staying 2 nights. Many of the wedding guests were making their way down today as well as the bride and groom.
We met up with a few at the restaurant in the evening and since it is a buffet, everyone can move around to visit with each other. Like the Shangri-la, they do buffets really well. There was always fruit, Indian food, Sri Lankan food, Chinese food and western food. And there are always desserts.
We have a balcony this time so…surprise!..Dave and Don tackled more of the world’s problems there along with some scotch and cigars!
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| Loading up the van. Yes it’s Maleen’s Chic Holiday van. He sure is taking care of us! |
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| Is that a Kmart?! |
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| Rice paddies |
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| Very lush and green outside of the city |
We were greeted with a welcome dance when we arrived at the hotel
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| Wonderful accommodations |
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| …and a killer view! |
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| Surfers loving the waves |
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| A view of part of the town of Weligama |
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| Brothers checking out the beach |
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| Another wedding at this hotel. We had a great view! |
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| Sunset views from the top of the hotel |
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| Thilini showing off her bracelet that we brought her from New Mexico |
Was nice to "chill" and unwind for a couple of days. :)
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