Sri Lanka 2026

Woke at sunrise as usual and had an early morning cuppa on our decking before putting on the sunscreen and heading to breakfast.  Passed the terns feeding Lots of rock coloured crabs  and the usual very noisy crows Breakfast is beautifully presented, as always with an amazing variety on offer Followed by snorkelling from our decking, which proved far more successful than yesterday and some time spent reading. Photos to follow! After lunch we played pool, in the cool air-conditioned bar, you can really feel the heat when you come out again! The public toilets are also air-conditioned! Then we treated ourselves to a massage, very relaxing.  Came back to our room to find the departure instructions for tomorrow, we have to be up at 4 a.m ready to leave on the speed boat at 4.30 a.m, on to Male airport by plane and leaving there for Heathrow at 11a.m....an early start! So we've asked if we can put our cases out this evening to buy us a bit m...

We woke at sunrise, as we have done all holiday and after a cuppa and applying a good dolop of suncream as the sun is seriously strong all day, we left our bungalow, on the right hand side of this photo, there are three separate units in each building. Walked along the causeway, there is a very frequent electric cart " bus service" if you don't fancy the walk! Towards The Palace end of the island and had a wander with some stunning vistas Past the swimming pool with one of the resident birds on around the end of the island  to breakfast with another glorious view After which we wandered back to our bungalow along a shady path before emerging back into the searing sunshine on the causeway. We spent the morning snorkelling on the other side of the island, not very successfully as the water was very churned up. Folowed by a dip in the pool and a...

This morning there were a lot of Easter decorations at breakfast as it's Easter Sunday  Afterwards we said goodbye to another 3 members of our group as they carried on with their adventures. The bus journey seemed very quiet! Check in went smoothly and after a spot of retail therapy we said our goodbyes to the rest of our group as they headed home. It's been a pleasure to spend our holiday with such a great bunch of people. Just the two of us now! Good bye Columbo Our flight to Male in the Maldives took about 1 hour. We were met by hotel rep once we had cleared customs, checked in for our sea plane flight and shown to the lounge where, whilst we waited for around 40 minutes, we could help ourselves to food/drink and go out on the balcony to watch the other seaplanes. A real treat. Our plane left on time with 10 passengers. The trolley service came in a box and consisted of earplugs, which we absolutely needed, and a wi...

This morning we were up early as usual and wandered along the beach taking photos of the surfers, not on my phone though! There are  couple of interesting trees in the grounds of the hotel. A fish poison tree, the flower is used by fishermen to tranquilise the fish and make them easier to catch. and a screw pine tree After breakfast we said our goodbyes and were waved off by the two leaving us to go on their next adventure We stopped a mile or so along the road to see the stilt fishermen, it was really just for the tourists and a good money spinner for the fishermen who didn't take kindly to those, not in our group, trying to take a photo without paying! We then drove a short while to visit a small folk musem inspired by a local writer. The museum is a typical house from the Koggala region and is set amongst beautiful gardens Including this very interestingly named tree! A cashew nut growing on the cashew tree ...