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After reading a huge number of reviews, we decided to relax in this beautiful country. The impressions are just wonderful, we went on excursions every day, I immediately want to advise a guide, he lives in Induruwa (I advise you to have a map of Sri Lanka before the trip if you are going to go on excursions yourself, by the way it is much cheaper). The guide's name is Sudat phone number +94-077-655-53-78 very good and kind person speaks English well, understands a little Russian! We went on an excursion with him in Halle, paid $ 15 for two, went by tuk tuk) This is local transport). On the way, he took us to a silk factory, a mask factory, a moonstone factory, and several other monuments, stopping wherever they asked and wanted to take a photo. And all this for $15!
I advise you to take excursions only from local guides and not in Kyiv. Galle is a very beautiful fort, you can’t see all its beauty and power in the photo) From Galle we drove to Unavantuna, where we bought in the ocean with azure water)).
The rest of the days we went on an excursion to Hikkaduwa, looked at the reefs, saw a huge turtle through the glass bottom of the boat). We went on an excursion along the Madu Ganga River, saw huge monitor lizards, monkeys) drove to a turtle farm, after that we were in the temple of the largest Buddha in Sri Lanka).
And the longest excursion was to Nuwara Eliya, I advise everyone to go, it's unforgettable! insanely beautiful tea plantations, much better than in Candy. On the way we stopped at the Royal boat. garden (super!! ), Pinavella elephant nursery, we passed rice fields, pineapple plantations, where we ate the most delicious pineapples! We don't have any!! ! Just a fairy tale) On the way home, we looked at the rubber trees).
In general, I really liked the whole holiday, but we didn’t sit a day in the hotel, we constantly traveled somewhere or just walked along the coast, studied where the beach is better). We got acquainted with the local population, very kind and friendly people, if you enter the village everyone is happy to see them, they ask to take a picture of them. On the way to Galle, we looked from the Tuk-tuk at the beaches that we passed, remembered which city was the best and then went there for 2-3 dollars the next day to walk and swim. Everywhere you have to bargain, the price can be thrown off twice. ) I do not advise buying stones and jewelry, they are bred everywhere).
We lived at the Emerald Bay Hotel and Induruwa Beach, fed excellently, constantly fresh bananas, papaya, etc. ) the choice of dishes is huge, if you don’t wait for Lobster for dinner, then everything is super). There are really a lot of old Germans in the hotel, many Russians don't like it. If you came stupidly to lie on a sunbed in a hotel, I do not advise you to go to any of these hotels.
Another guide, speaks excellent Russian, his name is Jivan + 94-34-567-15-12 we went on three long excursions with him. Sometimes you can go to the city for $ 2 for shopping and fruit.
It is interesting that they have separate Muslim areas and separate Buddhist areas, you can immediately see the difference in people and streets).
Many write that their streets are very dirty, as for me it is just as dirty there as in any village a little further than Kyiv, they didn’t notice anything terrible. Here, as in the proverb "What a person has inside, he sees. " We saw a beautiful, warm country with a wonderful climate, delicious fruits, a warm ocean, kind people and amazing nature!
Regarding the hotel: you have to starve them out constantly asking for a better room) in the end they will give you. The rooms are not great, but we knew that the hotel was 3 stars and saw photos of other tourists. If you only spend the night there, then everything is super) The only negative is that you had to beg for shampoo))))
