A tuk tuk on a boat

Sometimes the road just runs out. We were traveling in the North, tuk tukking along, minding our own business on the super primitive Karainagar Island Northwest of Jaffna, and boom! No more road. We could see to Kayts Island, the next island we needed to get to, across a kilometer or so of the Indian […]

A Tuk Tuk Trip Around The North End

When we left Weligama we had just a few spots left to see on the island. The drive turned into a whirlwind of beautiful sights and crazy tuk tuk adventures (more on the adventure part soon). We wanted to see the Southern part of central Sri Lanka, in the mountains (more on this part soon […]

Goodbye WEligama

We have been here in Weligama for two and a half months now, and the time has come to move on. I have mixed emotions as I suppose I do every time we leave a place. Weligama is a busy town, sandwiched between a bunch of other heavily touristed towns in the surrounding sixty kilometer stretch […]

Friendly Rats and MMA Fights in Sri Lanka (In Our Kitchen).

In this case, the MMA stands for Mad Mongoose Attacks (obviously). A completely true, unembellished story, exactly as it happened before breakfast today: We have an open air kitchen at our house in Weligama. It is surrounded by walls, about eight feet high, and part of it (the part over the sink and hotplate are […]