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Day 11 – Colombo to Kandy
Summary: Today we caught the Main Line train once more to resume our journey. We stopped at the ancient capital of Kandy in the afternoon. After arriving at Dreamscape Home Stay (affiliated link) in Kandy we used a PickMe down to the famous Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) which is the location of […]
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Day 9 – Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Summary: Today we woke up early (5am) to start our journey towards Horton Plains (32km, 1.5 hour drive). Once we were there, we feared that the intense fog will wreck our views like at Piduruthalagala the previous day. With the fog it felt like we were hiking around New Zealand. However, as the day went […]
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Day 8 – Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Summary: Today we woke up at a quite chilly Red Wood Inn for the best breakfast of the trip so far. We then travelled with a tour guide recommended by Redwood Inn for the entire day: First we went to the military base at Piduruthalagala Mountain (only opened to tourists recently after the war) which is […]
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Day 7 – Ella Rock & Travel to Nuwara Eliya
Summary: Early morning hike to Ella Rock for views just after sunset (we didn’t get up in time) and then train journey from Demodara Railway station to Nanu oya Railway station. Details: After doing some research online we found a guide that showed us how to get from Ella Railway station to Ella Rock. In […]
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Day 6 – Ella, Sri Lanka
Summary Today we had a planned tour with the three wheel (tuk tuk) driver we met last night. Below is a list of all the places we went to. Dowa Rajamaha Viharaya, which is an ancient rock temple with a large Budda statue craved from the stone Mahamevnawa Monastery, which is still under construction but […]
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Day 5 – Colombo to Ella Train Ride
Summary: The train line to Ella is known as the Badulla or Main Line and a 2nd class ticket to Ella is 350LKR / $2.85 AUD. The journey will begin from Colombo Fort Station (also known as Kotuwa) and takes around 10 hours. During the journey from Colombo to Kandy the train is going opposite […]
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Day 0 – Leaving Aus.
The journey begins. We travelled to Sri Lanka on a direct flight with Sri Lankan airlines from Melbourne to Colombo on Thursday 23th of August 2018. At Melbourne airport there was no request to see my onward travel and the same in Sri Lanka. Potentially because I have travelled here so often. There was an […]
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Unemployment
Just over two weeks of not having a job… As sad as it was to leave the people I have worked with for the last five and a half years it really felt amazing to turn off all my morning alarms which periodically started from 4am (due to ambitions of early morning gym sessions…I went […]
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Hello World
Welcome to Travel the Gap! My wife and I have both given our resignations to work and we are preparing to backpack around the world for the next 12 – 18 months. This blog will be a record of the places we visit. This my first ever blog, so please forgive me if I sound […]
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