There's not much to say about my last days in Hikkaduwa: I hung out with Dylan, Steph & Luca. My days were pretty much the same with: eating - sleeping - surfing - slackline - reading and I liked it!

From Friday (09/12) to Monday I was in Mirissa, where I met Sean, we hung out together for 2 days! I went Whale Watching, saw a moon eclipse, talked a lot with Sean while it was raining and we visited Weligama.

After the beaches it was time to go to the Hill Country. I started in Ella and stayed there for 2 nights. You remember the noodle story? I'm still travelling with one ... well not anymore!!!! I finally had my last noodle dinner in Ella! There I walked up to Little Adam's Peak, had a ‘Shiro dhara' treatment (it took me 3 showers to get the smell out of my hair), took a Sri Lankan cooking class ... or let's say: I watched the chef making 9 different curries and explaining to me what he was doing and I didn't touch anything ... but I will get the recipes and I could taste them all ... my god it was way too much so I shared my dinner with a total stranger.

On Wednesday I took the train from Ella to Nuwara Eliya. It's a beautiful ride along the mountains, the hills, some villages, some waterfalls....the views are amazing. There were no seats left so I sat on the floor by the door ... it was great until it started raining ... a little less fun. In Nuwara Eliya there's absolutely nothing to do except shopping so that's what I did. I bought myself a new sweater (like the one I lost in Goa), treated myself with some ‘Fererro Rocher' just because of the nutella in it. Oh yeah, there's also a Tea factory you can visit.

After Nuwara Eliya I took the train to Kandy, again I find there's not much to do. I walked around the lake, visited the temple of the sacred tooth Relic (I was allowed to watch it for half a second) and after 5 weeks I still manage to get ripped off somehow, damn! Well, I did find a nice Tuktuk driver that took me to the buddha statue on the hill, the Millennium Elephant Foundation and the Sri Lanka dances. While driving he stopped to buy me some corn and a coconut that we ate along the road.

I think the hill country is lovely, too bad the weather was not good while I was there ...

Next on my program: The ancient cities with Dambulla, Sigirya, Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura (and yes, I can pronounce all these names). In Dambulla (a series of rock caves with paintings, temples and Buddhist images) I met Erik, Belgian but living in Amsterdam so that makes the most horrible Belgian/Holland accent. Anyway after the caves we went to Sigirya together and climbed the famous rock. Next day I went to Polonnaruwa ... it's a lovely place with ruins of the Royal Palace, some temples, a huge stupa, an ancient monk university and much more. It took me 3 hours to visit the place by bike. The next morning I took a bus toAnuradhapura where it was difficult to find a decent room. I had to go to 5 different places before I finally found one! It was raining, raining, raining the whole day so instead of visiting the place by bike, I took a Tuk Tuk. I have to say that I'm starting to get a little spoiled ... I've seen so many temples & stuppa's that I'm not easily impressed anymore. So the tuk tuk driver took me to a sight and sometimes after 10 seconds I was back in the tuk tuk thinking: been there, done that, what's next!

The ancient cities were lovely but again to bad it rained so much ... so it's time to go to a place where there's less rain .... Back to Hikkaduwa !!!! (just for a few days)

20.12.2011 (Gelukkige verjaardag Mauriceke !!! dikke knuffels aan mijne lieve schat) First I have to get there; it was a 12 hour journey from Anuradhapura to Hikkaduwa. I left at 9 am and I arrived at 9pm. I had to stay 1 night at Sunny's before going back to the best place in town: Richard's sons Beach Villa. It was so cool being back there, lots of locals were greeting me, being surprised I was back, asking where my boyfriend was (I think they meant Dylan), telling me to come to their party, etc ... So from Wednesday till Friday I did like I always do there ... absolutely nothing!! On Thursday & Friday I even had company because Erik (the Belgian guy with his strange accent) joined me in Hikkaduwa.

It's time to leave Sri Lanka ... I was supposed to go to Thailand but there has been a change of plans .... Let's go to Dubai !!!

Merry Christmas Everyone !!!