Day 109 Thursday May 2, 2024, Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) Arrival: 07:00 All Aboard: 16:30 Departure: 17:00 We arrived early to Colombo to see modern buildings on the landscape. The country has two capitals with Sri Jayawardenpura the legislative capital and Colombo the executive and judicial capital. We are in Colombo with its 735K population in a country of 22.3 million. In 1948 after nearly 150 years of British rule, Sri Lanka became an independen...

Day 108 Wednesday, May 1, 2024, Hambantota, Sri Lanka Arrival: 7:00 All Aboard 16:30 Departure: 17:00 After two sea days cruising the Andaman Sea, we are in Hambantota for our first of two stops in Sri Lanka. We have a booked a ship tour to Yala National Park with the hopes of seeing leopards. Our friends Karen and Tom were also booked on this tour. It was an early wake up call as the tour left the ship at 07:30. Vast amounts of rice fields can be seen o...