Sri Lanka - Part 21 - Galle and Colombo

Monday, 22 February 2016

We didn't leave Galle until 10 AM, so we had time to walk the beach.

The tide was coming in, so we got to see a lot of impressive spray as the waves broke on the boulders on the beach.

Lon dodging the incoming tide.

Sue on the beach.

The beach at the hotel was filled with seashell and coral fragments.

In a small rock crevice, someone had assembled a human figure from coral and rocks.

The view from breakfast at the hotel.

We took the expressway to Colombo (2 hours vs 5 hours on the "shore road"). We then spent the rest of the day in Colombo before transferring to the airport shortly after midnight.

The palm-type plant has a trunk that resembles a snake.

Near the National Museum: Original art for sale.

A building under construction. The chairs in the lower right are set up to view this evening's "Perahera".  (See following post.) While under construction, construction workers and their families live in the incomplete structure - you can see their laundry drying. Not in the photo are their cars that are parked on the first and second floors.