Day 1
Chennai International Airport
I was planning a trip to Andaman and Nicobar with a good friend Topi and while we were discussing the plan, he informed me that Shri Lanka round trip is cheaper than Andamans, this small chat resulted in a adventurous trip to the Pearl of the Indian Ocean-Shri Lanka. It is known so because of its natural beauty. Sri Lanka has also been called "the teardrop of India" because of its shape and location, and "the nation of smiling people". I invite you to have a virtual tour with me to the Pearl.
Guess who?
We were
flying like a shooting star. As soon as we stepped down in Bandaranaike International Airport, we used free wifi on cell phone and net enabled computers
at the entry. Yes they were providing free internet 24 7 for tourists. Now
we were moving in and authorities were not allowing us to go inside as we have
not mentioned local address in immigration form also on the other hand they are
themselves telling us to put anything hotel like “Colombo hotel”. I have to
say, they are helping people, normally Indians have myth that Sri Lanka is a
dangerous place, but I cannot agree on this anymore. The best part, they gave
us free local sim.
Topi
Finally we entered in and my dear friend Topi had to shit, so he went
inside washroom, as soon as we entered in, it was smelling so good as if it was
not a washroom but a aroma factory. You may not believe, but it was the first
washroom which actually smelled awesome. Now we were moving out and many people
approaching towards us with different travel plans, all looks very costly as
they were offering us cars and being 2 people crew it was costly affair.
Ram Setu
So we
dropped all those and came out. when we were about to leave port, one more man
approached us with a plan, but we asked him for money exchange, so he
approached a business person (people who exchange labours between countries)
who gave us exchange rate of 1.97. Meaning if we give him 1INR, he returns 1.97
Sri Lankan Rupee. Since we didn’t had any LNR with us so we agreed at this rate
for a small amount 1000 INR, I knew that we can get rate up to 2 also and later
we got to know that 2.10 is also available. We came out of Port and then it was
time for many rickshawala to approach us but unlike India they do not start
fighting themselves, if one person is approaching another would not.
I hope you liked our entry, stay tuned for complete trip.
We were
flying like a shooting star. As soon as we stepped down in Bandaranaike International Airport, we used free wifi on cell phone and net enabled computers
at the entry. Yes they were providing free internet 24 7 for tourists. Now
we were moving in and authorities were not allowing us to go inside as we have
not mentioned local address in immigration form also on the other hand they are
themselves telling us to put anything hotel like “Colombo hotel”. I have to
say, they are helping people, normally Indians have myth that Sri Lanka is a
dangerous place, but I cannot agree on this anymore. The best part, they gave
us free local sim.
|
| Topi |
Finally we entered in and my dear friend Topi had to shit, so he went
inside washroom, as soon as we entered in, it was smelling so good as if it was
not a washroom but a aroma factory. You may not believe, but it was the first
washroom which actually smelled awesome. Now we were moving out and many people
approaching towards us with different travel plans, all looks very costly as
they were offering us cars and being 2 people crew it was costly affair.
|
| Ram Setu |
So we
dropped all those and came out. when we were about to leave port, one more man
approached us with a plan, but we asked him for money exchange, so he
approached a business person (people who exchange labours between countries)
who gave us exchange rate of 1.97. Meaning if we give him 1INR, he returns 1.97
Sri Lankan Rupee. Since we didn’t had any LNR with us so we agreed at this rate
for a small amount 1000 INR, I knew that we can get rate up to 2 also and later
we got to know that 2.10 is also available. We came out of Port and then it was
time for many rickshawala to approach us but unlike India they do not start
fighting themselves, if one person is approaching another would not.
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