Blog digest: 'Love is easier with alcohol and boiled egg' | Pledge Holidays Travel Blog

Sri Lanka is known for coconut arrack, a spirit distilled from the fermented sap of the palm tree. But Jaffna is known for palmyrah palms, not coconut ones. *** If golden beaches, rising waves, misty mountains, mighty elephants, stealthy leopards, giant whales, a majestic past, lovely tea and warm smiles could sum up a country, it would be Sri Lanka. *** Compared to the huge network of Indian railways, Sri Lanka is more like a toy train, and all the more better because it’s less crowded, less strenuous and much shorter in distance. *** Sitting in a tea plantation mess hall on a ridge above the high hill station of Ella, Sri Lanka, last week, sipping a weak green tea for which I had paid the equivalent of 10 bucks, or about 20 times its value in the village 100 metres or so below, I was reminded of the words of the travel writer PicoIyer – this generation’s Paul Theroux – in his excellent essay, “Why We Travel”. *** We decided travel around Sri Lanka with public transports (and some tuk-tuk), rather than hiring a car and driver. We found out that car + driver hire cost about USD 50 a day, excluding accommodation (usually hotels or B&Bs have driver’s quarter but if this is not available, you’ll have to pay for the driver’s board as well). Click bellow to check out the posts. #SriLanka #Bloggers #Jaffna #Arrack
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