Raising funds for vulnerable women and children in Sri Lanka
Raising funds for vulnerable women and children in Sri Lanka
Leaving Habarana We left our Habarana base where we’d stayed for 2 nights and headed for the strategically important Naval port of Trincomolee on the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. We both loved …
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Resting our feet Our village tour as a 3 minute movie Coconut sambol recipe This recipe was made for us almost everywhere we’ve been. It is amazing and so simple to make if you have …
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We were up before the cockerels woke us this morning and on the road by 5am. We made the steep climb to the top of Sigiriya Rock in time to see the sunrise at 6.05. …
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The tanks and reservoirs of the dry zone This section of our trek has been dominated by walking alongside two main tanks or what we might call reservoirs. Tanks in Sri Lanka were hand built …
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Today was all about visiting an indigenous community in Dambana, eastern central Sri Lanka. A highlight was a personal meeting with the Veddah Chief, Uruwarige Wanniyalaeto, which had been arranged for us as part of …
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An early tuk tuk trip today with Susantha to WDC where I dropped off the donation of children’s clothes, school stationery, spectacle frames and medicines. And then to Kirimatiya, the Tamil village in the hills …
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