After spending just one day in the Colonial town of Galle, where we explored the old fort mostly, we headed further south, to two beach cities. Our first stop was overpriced and over-developed Unawatuna. We figure that most people there were rich, middle aged Europeans who just wanted a day at the beach after Galle. However, the water was incredibly blue and the sand nice. But for the price we paid for dinner and our room, we figured we could find better if we ...

We've just finished our whirlwind tour of the cultural triangle in Sri Lanka. We figured we would spend more time in this area, but the transportation was easy, and the short distances made seeing everything go twice as fast as we expected. After arriving in Sri Lanka, we almost immediately made our way to Anuadhapura. We rented bikes from our guesthouse and spent the next day cycling around the ancient temples. After seeing Angkor Wat just a few weeks ago, it r...

We arrived in Anuradhapura in the late afternoon, after an eight hour ride on a packed bus through winding, bumpy, unpaved roads. Police wearing fatigues and armed with machine guns were on every corner of every street, and we even noticed them keeping watch inside grocery stores and restaurants. There was only one reason to venture this far into northern Sri Lanka, and that was for the magnificent ruins of the ancient city of Anuradhupura, located just a few m...