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Rested in Ranne212 March-April - 14 days.
Impressions are wonderful.
About the hotel.
I read previous reviews and am surprised, gentlemen, tourists want to get everything at once, wild untouched nature and impeccable service and conditions. I don’t think this happens, but the Ranna212 team tried to make it happen: a wild deserted beach, a wonderful ocean, sunrises and sunsets, and at the same time a completely European hotel with excellent rooms, good service, fulfilling almost all your whims at any time)
Wiring takes place, as elsewhere, you just need to be more careful. This is mainly due to the fact that the Sri Lankans do not understand English very well, and our brother does not have enough English to explain to them what they want, they just need to adapt a little.
Nice to have free WiFi in all rooms.
Simka take "Dialogue" - other operators are not caught there.
About food.
Quite good cuisine, there is both spicy food and not spicy, fresh juices for breakfast, fruits, bananas, watermelons, pineapples, papaya (not the season, however), except for the buffet every day they do something on the grill, for breakfast scrambled eggs with different fillers . Sea food is not very much, but in many dishes there is the freshest tuna, fish curry, salads and just grilled steaks. Every day for dinner themed days, Italian, Indian, Thai, etc. cuisine, live local-national musicians. Better take breakfast and dinner, because there really aren’t any cafes nearby, there are a couple of tents outside the territory where you can buy drinks, chocolates, etc. (they don’t have alcohol). For a more substantial one, you need to go to the nearest Tangalle (ask the Food-City market) a quite tolerable chain store, but again without alcohol, in Tangale it is sold in a separate place, ask the driver - he will tell you. By local law, places with alcohol are limited to the proximity of schools and temples.
Seafood - shrimp, lobsters, crabs, tuna, you can ask to catch local fishermen, or even yourself with them, go to the beach and see the boats on the right, go there and bargain, you can agree that they will cook them for you, on the shore or to your home will be invited.
Rest.
The ocean - there are no waves from November to February. The waves are not so much high as strong, if you stand waist-deep in water, it knocks you down. And so, dive under the waves and swim as fast as you like after the wave, it’s more difficult to get out, watch the waves and go into a pause or the smallest wave (it’s better, of course, for someone to navigate from the shore).
If you are afraid, let the tuk-tukers take you to the Kolomita place behind Tartal Bay (a bay with stones and ships), (on foot for an hour and a half along the beach to the left) there is a very good bay with small waves, as well as a fresh river. The sun is very insidious, use a cream of the 30th no less.
Body and soul.
On the first day we visited the hotel SPA, to put it mildly, we didn’t like it - the massage was mediocre for unrealistic money (
An excellent, real Ayurvedic massage can be obtained if you contact a local resident named Saman. A very sincere and pleasant person, sociable, speaks English, he can tell a lot of interesting things, we became friends with him very much. He has been engaged in massage for more than 10 years and it was he who trained many massage therapists in the district.
From his massage you will get a complete relaxation not only of the body, but also a complete relaxation of the mind. He has different programs, full body oil massage (1.5 - 1 hour), head massage, foot, face, back massage (30 min. )
Prices are 2 times lower than hotel prices.
The site claims yoga classes - they lie, they say the program is not ready yet.
But from the staff, a certain person named Don (room manager) himself practices yoga and will be happy to practice with you, he says that he has students in Russia as well.
Postili temple complex Multirigala, near Tangalle. A very old cave monastery consists of several tiers, each with a reclining Buddha, and paintings on the ceiling walls, each cave has its own theme. The bottom one is the oldest. At the very top, there is a beautiful view of Sri Lanka, even Adam's Peak is visible. In this monastery, a treatise was written - Tripitaka (80 years BC), before that it was passed from mouth to mouth. In general, in Lanka one of the most orthodox areas of Buddhism (Theravada or - "teaching of the elders").
We visited the temple complex in the neighboring city of Dikwella, where the largest sitting Buddha on the island (50 meters) is located, you can climb to the top (the “brain” of the Buddha) put your head in a special hole approximately in the cerebellum of the Buddha and the monk will read prayers. An interesting temple on the walls of which are depicted about 550 sins and their consequences - a strong impression (it is better not to go for the faint of heart).
We visited a tea plantation and the Undawalawe National Park. We saw elephants, a two-week-old baby elephant, peacefully sleeping and chewing grass, buffaloes, peacocks, monkeys, turtles, a crocadile, various birds, including a toucan, all this is just against the freaky background of the mountains.
There is not far from the hotel in the town of Kalamita (I wrote), but not by the sea, but further - a park with birds you can watch them, but it's better to ask the locals to ride a boat there are more birds, they say there are small crocodiles.
The downside is, of course, far from the airport, but maybe it's better that so far these places are not polluted by civilization.
For those who really want to relax their body and soul, forget about the bustle of the city - wellcome to the south of Sri Lanka! By the way, at the end of the year they promise to open an airport nearby, so hurry up.
And for those who care more about bringing beer to the pool on time - Turkey and Egypt are welcome.
That's all, I'll be glad if someone at least a little bit this review helps.
PS.
Wrote for the first time, if that do not kick hard : )) Good luck to everyone.
Impressions are wonderful.
About the hotel.
I read previous reviews and am surprised, gentlemen, tourists want to get everything at once, wild untouched nature and impeccable service and conditions. I don’t think this happens, but the Ranna212 team tried to make it happen: a wild deserted beach, a wonderful ocean, sunrises and sunsets, and at the same time a completely European hotel with excellent rooms, good service, fulfilling almost all your whims at any time)
Wiring takes place, as elsewhere, you just need to be more careful. This is mainly due to the fact that the Sri Lankans do not understand English very well, and our brother does not have enough English to explain to them what they want, they just need to adapt a little.
Nice to have free WiFi in all rooms.
Simka take "Dialogue" - other operators are not caught there.
About food.
Quite good cuisine, there is both spicy food and not spicy, fresh juices for breakfast, fruits, bananas, watermelons, pineapples, papaya (not the season, however), except for the buffet every day they do something on the grill, for breakfast scrambled eggs with different fillers . Sea food is not very much, but in many dishes there is the freshest tuna, fish curry, salads and just grilled steaks. Every day for dinner themed days, Italian, Indian, Thai, etc. cuisine, live local-national musicians. Better take breakfast and dinner, because there really aren’t any cafes nearby, there are a couple of tents outside the territory where you can buy drinks, chocolates, etc. (they don’t have alcohol). For a more substantial one, you need to go to the nearest Tangalle (ask the Food-City market) a quite tolerable chain store, but again without alcohol, in Tangale it is sold in a separate place, ask the driver - he will tell you. By local law, places with alcohol are limited to the proximity of schools and temples.
Seafood - shrimp, lobsters, crabs, tuna, you can ask to catch local fishermen, or even yourself with them, go to the beach and see the boats on the right, go there and bargain, you can agree that they will cook them for you, on the shore or to your home will be invited.
Rest.
The ocean - there are no waves from November to February. The waves are not so much high as strong, if you stand waist-deep in water, it knocks you down. And so, dive under the waves and swim as fast as you like after the wave, it’s more difficult to get out, watch the waves and go into a pause or the smallest wave (it’s better, of course, for someone to navigate from the shore).
If you are afraid, let the tuk-tukers take you to the Kolomita place behind Tartal Bay (a bay with stones and ships), (on foot for an hour and a half along the beach to the left) there is a very good bay with small waves, as well as a fresh river. The sun is very insidious, use a cream of the 30th no less.
Body and soul.
On the first day we visited the hotel SPA, to put it mildly, we didn’t like it - the massage was mediocre for unrealistic money (
An excellent, real Ayurvedic massage can be obtained if you contact a local resident named Saman. A very sincere and pleasant person, sociable, speaks English, he can tell a lot of interesting things, we became friends with him very much. He has been engaged in massage for more than 10 years and it was he who trained many massage therapists in the district.
From his massage you will get a complete relaxation not only of the body, but also a complete relaxation of the mind. He has different programs, full body oil massage (1.5 - 1 hour), head massage, foot, face, back massage (30 min. )
Prices are 2 times lower than hotel prices.
The site claims yoga classes - they lie, they say the program is not ready yet.
But from the staff, a certain person named Don (room manager) himself practices yoga and will be happy to practice with you, he says that he has students in Russia as well.
Postili temple complex Multirigala, near Tangalle. A very old cave monastery consists of several tiers, each with a reclining Buddha, and paintings on the ceiling walls, each cave has its own theme. The bottom one is the oldest. At the very top, there is a beautiful view of Sri Lanka, even Adam's Peak is visible. In this monastery, a treatise was written - Tripitaka (80 years BC), before that it was passed from mouth to mouth. In general, in Lanka one of the most orthodox areas of Buddhism (Theravada or - "teaching of the elders").
We visited the temple complex in the neighboring city of Dikwella, where the largest sitting Buddha on the island (50 meters) is located, you can climb to the top (the “brain” of the Buddha) put your head in a special hole approximately in the cerebellum of the Buddha and the monk will read prayers. An interesting temple on the walls of which are depicted about 550 sins and their consequences - a strong impression (it is better not to go for the faint of heart).
We visited a tea plantation and the Undawalawe National Park. We saw elephants, a two-week-old baby elephant, peacefully sleeping and chewing grass, buffaloes, peacocks, monkeys, turtles, a crocadile, various birds, including a toucan, all this is just against the freaky background of the mountains.
There is not far from the hotel in the town of Kalamita (I wrote), but not by the sea, but further - a park with birds you can watch them, but it's better to ask the locals to ride a boat there are more birds, they say there are small crocodiles.
The downside is, of course, far from the airport, but maybe it's better that so far these places are not polluted by civilization.
For those who really want to relax their body and soul, forget about the bustle of the city - wellcome to the south of Sri Lanka! By the way, at the end of the year they promise to open an airport nearby, so hurry up.
And for those who care more about bringing beer to the pool on time - Turkey and Egypt are welcome.
That's all, I'll be glad if someone at least a little bit this review helps.
PS.
Wrote for the first time, if that do not kick hard : )) Good luck to everyone.
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