Я купался в океане I bathed in the ocean

I'll start from the road, i. e. from the flight and travel to the hotel. From the journey - this is the most difficult and not very pleasant, because. flew 2 times for 4.5 hours with a 2 hour wait in Sharjah, and then approximately 4 hours by bus to the hotel. So it’s better not to go with children, for them it’s one torment, and they didn’t see anyone in the hotel resting with children. Pleased, as always, our airports, in which, when checking hand luggage, they take ALL the water !! ! Buy in duty free (bottle 0.5 -2 $). In Colombo, on the way back, they took water and cola with them and no one said a word, although our frightened tourists laid out everything from their luggage there. And Air Arabia is a low-cost airline, so in-flight food is only for a fee. Knowing this, we prepared sandwiches at home for the journey, which were very useful.
We arrived in Colombo around 4 am, until we left the airport and everyone gathered at the bus, about an hour passed and by 8 am we were at the hotel. After breakfast, we immediately ran to swim in the ocean, which is just super, beyond words - you have to feel it yourself. We flew to a 3-star hotel - we didn’t think that everything would be very personal, given that the hotel only needed to spend the night (no one was going to sit in the room), although, like everywhere else, there were also dissatisfied people who wanted 5 stars from the hotel. The room is simple standard. We have repeatedly written about stone beds and bedside tables, although the mattresses themselves are even and huge. Room cleaned every day, asked for more towels - immediately brought. Nothing was stolen from us, although fellow travelers complained about trifles - cigarettes, mostly. Everything worked in the room, most importantly, the conder, because. the weather there is the same day and night, about 30 warm (at least when we were there, i. e. from 10/03/2012 to 10/12/2012). We were also very lucky with the room - it had a refrigerator, which, as we found out later, was far from being in every room.
There is good WiFi at the reception of Koggala Club Village, so we did not buy a local SIM card.

We used the services of the beach-boy Misha, who speaks good Russian, went with him on excursions along the river, to the Yalla reserve. Everything is excellent, I recommend it, unlike the guide of the operator Roma, who, like the DMB movie, you see Roma, no, but he is. They searched for him all evening before the trip to Kandy and never found him (although they drove from him). The departure was supposed to be early in the morning and in the end we were woken up 1.5 hours earlier than expected. Excursions to Kandy and Yallu are also heavy because of the road. The distance by our standards seems to be small, but with their frantic movement it is very long. Before arrival, there was an idea to rent some kind of moped, but after looking at their movement (especially right-handed) they left this idea.
We used the services of tuk-tuks, which are very inexpensive and you can bargain. I definitely recommend driving their buses, which we called crazy bass. They fly on them like Schumachers and this pleasure costs less than our minibuses. From the hotel we went to the neighboring town (if you can call it that) Ahangama and a ticket for two costs 32 rupees, and in the town there are good shops and a small local market with prices much lower than in Galle. People are really very friendly and smiling, but the truth is they look at us like aliens (especially children). Be sure to try everything you see fruits, we liked passionfruit and mango the most, and pineapples with bananas have a completely different taste than ours and are very inexpensive. Quite by accident we tried a buffalo milk product called kurd. It tastes like yogurt, but not sour and much fatter and tastier. Try it, you will not regret it, it costs an average of 150-170 rupees 1 liter. and is sold in clay pots. their glass is very expensive, and there is a lot of clay. It can be mixed with different fruits to make yogurt. They also ate all kinds of street food, it was also very tasty, though after it there was a fire in the mouth, which could be put out a little by a Kurd. We bought fresh tiger prawns, they cost around 1000 rupees per kg. and asked for a whip-boy Misha and he went somewhere and cooked them for us. From their alcohol they constantly bought local beer Lion and Three Coins (as it is written in English on the bank) very much nothing, but from strong they took arak (something similar to whiskey) and red rum, which, due to sweetness, is very knocking down . Nobody understands Russian, practically, so learn English, even the school curriculum is enough (unless, of course, they taught at school, and did not pretend).
The beach is of course gorgeous, but if anyone wants to swim, you need to go 300 meters to the left of the hotel and there is a lagoon where you can swim, near the hotel you can only tumble in the waves and do not go deeper. the ocean is addictive, believe me, and jokes with it can end very badly. On the way to the lagoon, where there are iron poles from which the locals fish, turtles live. Whoever wants to swim with a mask and snorkel, go to Unawatuna (everyone will tell you where this place is), there is a coral reef, though dead after the tsunami. In Unawatuna, there are a lot of cafes with local cuisine.
In general, I really liked the rest, we are going to go again, not everyone looked. Maybe there is not enough of such a sea as in Egypt, but there is plenty of exotic.