KANDY
From Chennai to Colombo first then picked up by our driver Gregorio and taken to Kandy a 4 and a half hour drive up in the hills lots of monkey's on the side of the road and in the trees we stayed at a place called Kandy cottage http://kandycottage.com/
its location was very interesting went up on a hill through back roads took a while to find, the driver had to stop a few times to ask locals for directions..lol, even then we were not able to find the cottage so we called the manager and he directed us via mobile.
finely found the right road' which incidentally we had passed a few times...lol and it was a rough dirt road with the vegetation over growing onto the road, the driver Mark and I just found it most amusing.
It was dark so made it even more interesting the landlord was standing waiting at the driveway flagging us down with his hand to come this way...got to the gate and had to drive up a very steep driveway into the carport...hmmm interesting.
We were greeted and directed to go up this narrow footpath once at the top finely seen the B&B very nice old cottage very small like a minors cottage,walk into the entry then past a dinning area that was very small only room for one small square dinning table for two,at the time a couple were having their evening meal,it was a bit of a tight squeeze.
As the door to our room was right behind where they were sitting we managed to get by them without any difficulty..so much for their intimate dinning that just went right out the window.
We couldn't go past without saying hello they were very quite it would have been a very nice romantic place to stay if there was only one couple staying there hmmm... interesting..what is next!!
Before we can enter our room Mark is handed a Key for the padlock on the door.. that was amusing as it didn't make any deference just had to give it a bit of a push and the door opened anyway.
The bedroom and bathroom were very clean and comfortable their was a little door on the other side of the room that went into a small veranda with fly wire on all the windows two wicker chairs and a small coffee table very sweet and it was private.
Mark had researched before we left and found a place called "The Pub" http://wikitravel.org/en/Kandy right up on a hill overlooking Kandy lake built by the last Sinhala King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandy
The Pub very nice place we had decided to go here for our dinner,there was a big screen T.V on the balcony wall we found a nice spot to sit and waited for the cricket to start between Sri Lanka & India a very nice place the food was o.k.
In the morning we sat at the little table for breakfast we were amused that there was a pendulum light hanging from the ceiling which obstructed my view across the table all I could see was marks torso so he had a light shade for a head giggling I suggested to the manager maybe he could raise the light fitting up just a little..lol
Off we go to our next destonation to visit a tea Plantation and then onto Nuwara Eliya Sri Lankas most popular hill resort.
From Chennai to Colombo first then picked up by our driver Gregorio and taken to Kandy a 4 and a half hour drive up in the hills lots of monkey's on the side of the road and in the trees we stayed at a place called Kandy cottage http://kandycottage.com/
its location was very interesting went up on a hill through back roads took a while to find, the driver had to stop a few times to ask locals for directions..lol, even then we were not able to find the cottage so we called the manager and he directed us via mobile.
finely found the right road' which incidentally we had passed a few times...lol and it was a rough dirt road with the vegetation over growing onto the road, the driver Mark and I just found it most amusing.
It was dark so made it even more interesting the landlord was standing waiting at the driveway flagging us down with his hand to come this way...got to the gate and had to drive up a very steep driveway into the carport...hmmm interesting.
We were greeted and directed to go up this narrow footpath once at the top finely seen the B&B very nice old cottage very small like a minors cottage,walk into the entry then past a dinning area that was very small only room for one small square dinning table for two,at the time a couple were having their evening meal,it was a bit of a tight squeeze.
As the door to our room was right behind where they were sitting we managed to get by them without any difficulty..so much for their intimate dinning that just went right out the window.
We couldn't go past without saying hello they were very quite it would have been a very nice romantic place to stay if there was only one couple staying there hmmm... interesting..what is next!!
Before we can enter our room Mark is handed a Key for the padlock on the door.. that was amusing as it didn't make any deference just had to give it a bit of a push and the door opened anyway.
The bedroom and bathroom were very clean and comfortable their was a little door on the other side of the room that went into a small veranda with fly wire on all the windows two wicker chairs and a small coffee table very sweet and it was private.
Mark had researched before we left and found a place called "The Pub" http://wikitravel.org/en/Kandy right up on a hill overlooking Kandy lake built by the last Sinhala King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandy
The Pub very nice place we had decided to go here for our dinner,there was a big screen T.V on the balcony wall we found a nice spot to sit and waited for the cricket to start between Sri Lanka & India a very nice place the food was o.k.
In the morning we sat at the little table for breakfast we were amused that there was a pendulum light hanging from the ceiling which obstructed my view across the table all I could see was marks torso so he had a light shade for a head giggling I suggested to the manager maybe he could raise the light fitting up just a little..lol
Off we go to our next destonation to visit a tea Plantation and then onto Nuwara Eliya Sri Lankas most popular hill resort.
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