Friday, June 08, 2007

Last minute trip

Decided at the last minute to go on a trip to Colombo. We set off at 4am from Ampara, the first problem we encounter in half an hour out of Ampara the road to Kandy is closed for security reasons and won't be open till 9am. So we turn back and try another route out of Ampara, this time the road is blocked by Elephants! After we get past the Elephants and to the bottom of the 17 hairpin bends that you climb to cross the mountains to Kandy, the clutch went!
It ended up taking 16 hours to get to our hotel south of Colombo another long day in paradise.