Author: sheenalydon
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Arriving at the backwaters
Our day didn’t start very well, I tried to take a photo in the morning and found out that somehow my camera lens had developed a fault overnight all on its own. It hadn’t been knocked or received any shock, but the lens barrel seems to have become stuck in one position – fortunately it’s…
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Sri Lanka (finally finished) – Elephants, Jewels and Rickety Trains
When we cycled to into Habarana, we were, as usual, tired and dusty. Stopping for a drink before we started the faff of finding accommodation, we were approached by a pretty crazy looking dude with a beard and a great big sack of something slung over his shoulder. Thinking that he was trying to hawk…
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Sri Lanka – Mulaitivu to Padaviya
Since we’ve arrived in Sri Lanka, I’ve been dying to see an elephant in the wild, just one, even from really far away. As long as I can tell it’s an elephant then I’ll be happy. Even better if it waves it’s trunk in salutation, but I’m not picky. Just one pachiderm, please! So far…
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Sri Lanka – Mannar to Jaffna, the top of Sri Lanka
Cycling over 100km any day is a big ask. We knew we had to do 118km today, there’s absolutely nowhere to stay or even wild camp between Mannar and Jaffna and so we would just have to push on. It’s a flat road, but things never go exactly as you want them to and our…
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Sri Lanka – Mannar (26/11)
Despite our great plans to get out for a cycle around to see the Mannar peninsula today, when we got up, the rain was coming down in buckets. It was much later than we had anticipated when we finally got to leave the guest house and go for breakfast. We headed to the hotel, that…
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Sri Lanka – Making our way north.
Anuradnapura is an ancient town with lots of old Buddhist temples, unfortunately because of the high entry cost we didn’t visit the main area of ruins. There were some you didn’t have to pay to see, and luckily on the day we visited some kind of large festival was taking place so it was very…
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Sri Lanka – Puttalam to Wilpattu and Back Again!
Sri Lanka can be a strange auld place. We stayed in a “holiday resort” last night and paid 1700 rupees for our room. We were told it was far superior to the rooms for 700. On dumping our bags and getting a chance to look around, we discovered here wasn’t much difference in it. The…
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Sri Lanka- the first day – Negombo to Chilaw (19/11)
We had great plans for our first day of cycling in Sri Lanka. We were going to get everything ready the evening before, set our alarm for the wee hours of the morning and hit the road before the traffic got heavy. But it wasn’t to be. After arriving back at our accommodation after a…
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The Mad Dash – From Ohrid, Macedonia to Belgrade Serbia in 8 days
Leaving Ohrid, we knew we had quite a task ahead of us. We intended to reach Belgrade by the 9th of November so that we would have time to pack up all of our belongings and find boxes to transport our bikes as far as Sri Lanka. We’re not thrilled that we will be skipping…
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Leskovik to Mollaj- Albania’s South East
The south east of Albania has been quite a contrast to many of the parts of the country we have seen before, most of the towns and villages we pass through are forgotten backwaters. Once centres of industry and manufacture during Communist times, they have been forgotten in the years since and are shunned…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 