Amazing Anura at “Peaceful Sigiyra”Guest House

The drive from Kandy to Sigiyra took nearly 3 hours this included the time it took the driver to locate the homestay. Mrs C was in some discomfort having several mosquito bites on her bum - how this happened who knows!

The lovely Anura who is the owner of the Peaceful guesthouse was there to greet us with his big smile. He prepared us fresh lime (from his garden) juice and soda and then declared tea at 5 pm.  Our room is large very new and clean. Anura is making us dinner and his cooking is fantastic. He prepares different Sri Lankan curry dishes every evening. Breakfast also has a Sri Lankan flavour with either hoppers and coconut sambal or delicious pancakes.

We have visited Sigiyra rock although didn’t climb right to the top as it is very strenuous. Sigiyra is a UNESCO world heritage site and is an ancient fortress. As a matter of interest some of the scenes from the music video for the Duran Duran “Save a Prayer” were filmed at the top of Sigiyra.

Taking a jeep safari to Minneriya National Park we saw lots of elephants including several babies, unfortunately not much else bar the odd monkey a peacock and an eagle.

We also had an Ayurvedic massage which has chilled us completely.

Tomorrow we are off to Negombo on the coast for a couple of nights before we start the next leg of our trip.




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