Some useful information about Sri Lanka:
Why the name Ceylon has been changed to Sri Lanka
Prices of accommodation in our trip varied from £10 per room per night to £40 but the average cost was £25 per night for a double or twin room in a good hotel. Double beds in Sri Lanka are huge and mattresses very comfortable. We rarely had problems with the wifi internet connection in the hotels.
Local people are usually polite and friendly. We were chatting to the hotel owners, people on buses or in the streets.
We never had any stomach problems on our holiday, despite eating in a few places that didn’t seem so clean. I think most of the restaurants and hotels have filtered water and it’s even safe to rinse mouth with the water, as I did few times because I forgot to use bottled water after cleaning teeth.
Almost all food we had was spicy, Fausto struggled with this a little bit, I love spicy food.
It’s very cheap and easy to travel in Sri Lanka. We saw a lot of families with children travelling on the island. It’s probably because you can provide a good standard holiday for not much money. For example, hiring a taxi driver costs £300 for 3 weeks. The price includes driver’s accommodation and food. The local buses and trains are cheap and reasonably reliable. If tuk-tuk drivers didn’t try to rip us off so hard, we would probably use them more often. But we liked taking local buses as they were an excuse to chat to the local people.
Sri Lankans have a lot of days off. For example, every full moon is a public holiday in Sri Lanka, each full moon has its own name and they are days to commemorate key events in Buddhism. These full moon days are known as Poya.
I am an animal lover. There are many homeless dogs and cats in Sri Lanka. I like the fact that most of them are not starving. 70% of the people are Buddhists so they can't kill or harm anything alive. They look after other people and animals. The dogs are not aggressive at all, they look lazy and completely ignore people.
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