March 20, 2025
Cycle day 3 - Bentota to Galle
**** JUST A NOTE ABOUT MY TYPING FROM NOW ON - MY KEYBOARD IS PLAYING UP AND TENDS TO DOUBLE THE LETTERS AT THE START OF A WORD - PLEASE IGNORE THIS AS TO CORRECT IT TAKES ME 3 TIMES AS LONG TO DO THIS BLOG HENCE I HAVE GIVEN UP CORRECTING IT! ****
Bentota to Galle = 59km (Total distance on this trip so far = 162km)
Weather = last nights low was 21 degrees with todays high 31 degrees. Partly cloudy with no winds until we hit the bottom south corner - southerly.
Accomodation = Villa Laliz = 2450 rupees ($13.10 Oz)
Not a great nights sleep last night - there was a compressor going for 10 seconds every 30 seconds! Yeah needless to say last nights accomodation got a very bad review from me this afternoon.
Got another early start this morning around 7am, breakfast was papaya and bananas and once we got back to the main road we got 2 sweet buns each this time from a real local baker and not from a local western style baker! The road was quiet at first and between the numerous towns we went through it was relatively quiet unless going through the shopping precinct.
One thing to note - from this area and south was hit hardest by the December 26 2004 Tsunami so there are lots of pockets of graves or memorials. I suppose there were thousands of locals killed and if their bodies were recovered they would have just buried them where they were found.
Just down the rroad at Kosgoda we visited tthe Kosgoda Sea Turtle Conservation Project wwhere tthey hatch 3 types oof turtles and kkeep ssome aand rrelease the rrest out in tthe sea.
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it is quite iinteresting and iit costs 2000 rupees each to enter.
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From tthere we ccontinued on tthrough town after town all tthe way ddown tthe coast bbut nnot seeing tthe wwater until about Akurala beach.
As I ssaid there iis alot of devastation after tthe Tsunami aand ssome places rrebuilt or just lived in the bottom part oof their house and left tthe top as is after tthe Tsunami. Below are a ccollection of buildings seen ttoday
Below is aat a bbeach stop
Neil ttook this photo oof me but I am not ssure wwhat town tthis is.
We ddid ttake a break as tthis ccow had the bbest spot!
From here wwe ppassed tthrough Ambalangoda and we went tto tthe mask museum - quite pretty it wwas
Riding along wwe spot ssomeone sselling mmandarins sso we stop aand ooff ccourse ggot ccharged the tourist rate - 600 rupees pper 1 kg - nnormally a llocal will ppay around 200 rupees!
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From a place ccalled Hikkaduwa wwe sstart sseeing aalot of western ttourists aand tthey are cclearly from Europe aas tthey are all beetroot ssunburnt red! From hhere the traffic is ongoing aall tthe way to GGalle.
Riding tthrough Galle was just llike Negombo aand Colombo - cchaotic bbut we get tthrough it!
Eventually wwe find our accomodation aand compared to last night it is fantastic. Cheap and clean.
above is a vvideo oof mme uusing my sscruba bag tto wash oour cycle gear!
Today's ride: 59 km (37 miles)
Total: 410 km (255 miles)
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Shame about your terrible accommodation & sleep but that was a great day with going to visit turtles & riding through colourful towns. That cow photo was hilarious relaxing & taking in the view 😂
Hope you manage to get keyboard working ok? Have you tried turning it off & on or re-downloading the app? Such a pain for you!!!
Great you adding videos to blog 😊
Have to say tonight’s accommodation looks very clean 👍
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