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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Kirigalpotta - Kings of the Night Mail

Rockland Old Arrack can do wonderful things. Over two bottles of premium Sri Lankan liquid, we planned a hike to Sri Lanka’s second highest mountain – Kirigalpotta, on one fine evening in October. Surprisingly, come morning, we were still able to recollect the trip plans and were still brazen enough to attempt it the week after. This speaks more about Sri Lankan alcohol than it does of our passion for the great outdoors. We concluded the hike to...

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Scaling Bambarakanda and Devil's Staircase

This post is long overdue. However, better late than never Prishan and I since of long had made futile plans to hike to the top of the highest waterfall in Sri Lanka - Bambarakanda Falls. These plans finally materialized and along with another colleague named Indika, we finally set off on fulfilling this dream. The more we do hikes across the country, the more we realize how much better our public transport system could be. It was the middle...

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Braving the heights at Bible Rock

Team of 3 1 Day in May 2013 Public Transport Since of late, Bible Rock has become a bit of a tourist destination. Whenever I surf through the joyous World Wide Web, among the Syrian uprising, UEFA league updates and endless and pointless celebrity news, I often stumble upon a tour group that advertises treks/hikes to Bible Rock. My travel buddy Prishan and I had been curious for some time to see what the fuss was all about. So we...

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