Sri Lanka?

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Anyone been?

[Brit]

Yes. What do you want to know? I blogged about it some.

[Deleted]

Could I have a link to your blog? We are interested in hiring a guide for at least part of the time. Did you do that?

[Brit]

eatrunbrit.com/travel/

They are organized by region.

We hired a few drivers, but never a guide. In my experience, the drivers were pretty expensive (we were living in India, so that was my point of comparison) I don't remember how expensive, but I remember having sticker shock.

How long will you be there for?

We visited mainly just the coast from Colombo to Galle, but if we had stayed longer I would have liked to have gone inland as well.

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I think we're going to do 6 days. DH has this crazy around the world flight plan that includes a bunch of different places, but the main draw is Sri Lanka.

This is his plan:
Los Angeles to Montreal (12 hours in Montreal)
Montreal to frankfurt to Rome (12 hours in Rome)
Rome to Istanbul (8 hours)
Istanbul to Maldives to Sri Lanka 6 days in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka to Singapore ( 8 hours in Singapore)
Singapore to Tokyo (3 days in Tokyo)

[Brit]

I think I would do three days in the Maldives and three days in Sri Lanka, but that's just me.

Not really any of my business, but why all of that time/effort to see Sri Lanka? I have been everywhere else that you mentioned and for me (obviously everyone has their own experiences/opinions) almost all of those other cities/countries were cooler than Sri Lanka.

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There's a big thread about it on MM, in which my husband comes in to explain.

www.pandce.proboards.com/thread/218434/aw-cc-travel-rewards-win

[samtayloruu]

Hey thanks for the thread. I have never been to Sri Lank but would like to be there. Sri Lanka is close to India and I expect it to be as beautiful as India is. I visited India recently and could not believe my eyes. It is damn beautiful. I fell in love with India. I hope to explore same experience in Sri Lanka too where I will be visiting in October as the weather will be awesome that time. I wish i have a great experience there.