Last few days in Sri Lanka

My last few days in Sri Lanka were spent in a little town called Kurunegala, and on the west coast. I was expecting Kurunegala to be a bit different to how it actually was. So rather than enjoying the scenery as I had expected, I enjoyed the company of some of the people who live there.

Finding a place to stay proved tricky but a kind guy showed me a hotel that belonged to his friend which was right on the lake. For some reason I got mates rates and so for less than I've paid in other places I got a huge room with air con, a TV, and a lovely bathroom with hot water!

From here I moved to Mount Lavinia, on the coast a little south of Colombo. This was unlike any place I've been in Sri Lanka and seemed to be full of very rich people. I stayed in an older ladies house who was lovely but could most certainly talk! She spent hours talking to me, and I spent hours listening to her. She was very rich and had a 'servant' who she referred to as the creature. This probably makes her sound horrible but it was actually quite a funny situation. She would tell me in horror about what her 'creature' had done and at the same time her 'creature' would be cursing to herself in the next room deliberately loud enough for us to hear. I think secretly they wouldn't know what to do without each other.

There were a few very posh hotels of which I was able to have a look around. I spent a day relaxing by the pool of one of them, whilst four Sri Lankan weddings took place. The ladies were absolutely beautiful in their saris.

I also did a couple (well kind of) of dives. The first dive was down to a ship wreck which ordinarily I think would have been a lovely ship wreck to explore. However, on this day there were strong currents and not good visibility and so it not only was quite hard to see, but also quite hard to relax for fear of being swept away and lost. The second dive was down to a different wreck, but this wreck I didn't even see. The visibility was so bad that all you could see was blackness. We aborted the dive and returned to the surface.

When it was time to leave I had my first and last train journey in Sri Lanka, which apart from the train being late (I think the only transport that has been late in all of my time here) went smoothly and I got to the airport in time for my onward flight.