Finally trying to catch up on our trip! (Slowly but surely I’ll get there).

After Dubai, we flew to Sri Lanka for 11 nights.

We arrived in the evening and our guide, Sandu, who would be driving us around the county met us there.

He basically picked up up and took us to our hotel for the first night. It was dark, so we could see a thing, but our room was comfy, and we had our first of many buffet meals:)

The next morning we saw we were right on the water which was pretty. We had a traditional Sri Lankan breakfast – lots of curry and Daal (exciting at first but then we started to crave less flavour:)

The first day we drove to the country’s first capital: Anuradhapura.

There we visited several temples (too many to name), and Sandu explained the signitifance of the stonework and carvings.

I wish I could tag each picture with all the details, but a collage will simply have to suffice.

All I can say is that it was hot – and being barefoot on the red brick and pathways was extremely hot – especially for Rob lol!

It happened to be our anniversary that day too… Sandu took us a bit early to our hotel – which was supposed to be amazing – with a pool and everything.

We got there (starving bcs somehow we had skipped lunch – we quickly told him we wanted to have some lunch in future) and the hotel was the strangest things ever.

It was huge, in this beautiful natural setting. Gorgeous room, but the hotel had this Indiana Jones feel to it.

And it was completely abandoned. We couldn’t find anyone!

We were so so hungry, but no one was around.

We finally found someone who worked there (one of the only two guys we saw lol) and we were able to get two cokes – but no food until dinner.

Luckily we had purchased these yogurt/chocolate covered dated in Dubai (which I really don’t even like) but desperate times call for desperate measures. We snacked on them and the coke.

Dinner was truly bizarre.

We sat poolside, and they served us (we think they must have gone to pick something up bcs there was no working restaurant anywhere!). No options – just served chicken fingers. And no cokes left in the hotel (we had both of them earlier on lol).

We laughed at the crazy anniversary memory we were making.

And hoped we came out alive. lol.

The next morning was similar – we were fed breakfast – which had a nice selection – but no choice and then I can’t say we were disappointed when Sandu came to pick us up (and we shared with him that we need to tell the travel agent that this is not the place to send clients lol).

Here’s some snaps of our anniversary evening:) Happy 16 years McHottie!