Kings of the Night Mail II : The Great Western!

It's been 2 years since I last blogged. Two years dammit!!. So much has changed over these two years that it feels almost unnatural that I'm writing about a hike again. Prishan is now a 'kalu sudda' living and working in Sydney. I'm married with a daughter who's almost an year old. And Indika is still trying to figure out the meaning of life (That hasn't changed). Prishan decided to take some time off from his fabulous Sydney life to come visit...

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Thotupola Kanda to Namunukula - a hiker's dream.

The train ride to Pattipola It’s been over 3 months since we did our bike ride around the country. We’ve had enough time to recover and think about another adventure. One thing was for sure. We’re not going to do that bike ride again for a really really long time to come. So after much deliberation, we finally decided to climb Mount Namunukula – a mountain range with nine peaks towards Badulla in Sri Lanka. If you had read my posts earlier,...

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The Lankan Roadtrip - Around Sri Lanka on a Motorbike

(This is long. So if you need to pee or feed the dog, might as well do those and start :)) 4 men, 2 bikes, 1600 kilometers around the edge of Sri Lanka in 4 days. We were called insane, mental and bat shit crazy from the moment we started planning it. It had been done before. There was an article on a popular local travel site about two guys who did the same thing on two bikes and this was the source of our inspiration. However, our goal was...

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