29th Jan 2012

Early morning flight from Mumbai to Chennai with Jet Airways. I have to say this flight for a budget airline was very good and much better than the experiences we have had with the likes of Easyjet, Ryanair or Monarch. From Chennai we flew with Sri Lanka Airways to Columbo and again a very pleasant flight. We did seem to go through a lot of security before we could board the plane. After the usual hand baggage x-ray and searches getting airside we were subjected to another search immediately before entering the plane. It got Savi and myself wondering whether the Tamil Tigers were making a comeback! Arrived in Sri Lanka and lovely welcome from Jason, Ashika and Raju uncle who is to be our driver and guide and whose family we are staying with for the first few days. The journey inland to Kandy took us about 3 hours and is a progressive climb from the coast up into the central mountains of Sri Lanka.


We eventually arrived to great fuss and welcome from Raju's family and Sujit who was the original contact that Savi made when she came to Sri Lanka two years ago prior to Ashika and Jason's Sri Lankan wedding. Ashika had since then returned on her own for a month to fulfil her ambition to do charity work, as she is a nurse in the UK. She said that although she visited a number of charities and hospices, she didn't actually get to do any nursing. However she has shared that the experience was life changing, in that it gave her an opportunity to evaluate what is important in life, and to forge very deep and lasting links with Raja Uncle's family. In fact she is returning in September with Jason for a family wedding! A lovely evening of settling into our new lodgings and then catching up on all the gossip and happenings over a lovely evening meal. Nice to be amongst our Sri Lankan friends again!! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Location:Kandy Sri Lanka