Having just read Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel for 2013, we were both disappointed and elated to see Sri Lanka take the top spot.  Disappointed because we just went in 2012, when it didn’t count, and elated because we DID go to Sri Lanka.  And boy was it AWESOME! Civil war over.  2004 tsunami all […]

A massive plug of magma rock in the middle of Sri Lanka, we’ve been itching to get to the top of it ever since watching the boys on Departures climb the thing a couple years back.  Enter – #68 on our bucket list: Dodge The Hornets While Climbing Sigiriya Rock! It wasn’t the fact that […]

The 2009 Sri Lanka Lonely Planet calls it “Baghdad at Sea”.  We call it….paradise!  Not that we don’t trust what Lonely Planet has to say…we definitely did our research before going.  By research, we mean asking 100+ people if Nilaveli Beach was safe. The answer was always the same.  “Before, not ok.  Now, it’s ok.  […]

Whenever we travel somewhere new, a question that is forever asked by friends, travellers, and locals alike is, “What do/did you like best?”  Our replies can range anywhere from the food, to the unbelievably majestic scenery.  With Sri Lanka, the thing that captivated us the most were their smiles.  Always there and always quick on […]

We know, we know….it’s been a while since our last post!  Coming back from Asia this summer we were thrust back into the world of work again, and it hasn’t been until just now that we’ve had a chance to think about sitting down to write and share some of our photos. We promise there […]