Blogs from Adam's Peak, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, Asia

Historie necht zaznamena, ze i ja jsem schopny vstat pred rozednenim, kdyz je k tomu duvod - jako v tomto pripade plan kouknout na vychod slunce z vrcholku Adam's peaku. Takze jsme ve dve v noci vyrazili. Cesta zacina pohodove, takove mirne stoupani s par schodama. Neni kde zabloudit, semtam predbihame pomalejsi kusy turistu a koukame po chrameccich, ktere mijime. Ale jen co prejdeme most, tak zacinaji schody. Pred casem jsem se zucastnil zavodu, kdo nejrychleji vysupi na Motokov na Pankraci. Tak to bylo neco jako Milos Zeman proti Vladimirovi Putinovi. Proste nejenom jina liga, ale uplne jiny sport! Jako tech schodu tam bylo fakt dost. Klidne by jich byvalo bylo mohlo byt i mene. Opravdu bychom se nezlobili. No ale bylo jich tam asi 5000, kazdy jinak vysoky, aby to bylo o to zabavnejsi. Hahaha... ... read more

Du haut de ses 2243 mètres, le pic d'Adam dévoile une empreinte dont l'origine y trouve son compte dans chacune des religions: les musulmans et chrétiens y voient l'empreinte d'Adam qui, après avoir été banni du paradis pour ses pêchés, se serait tenu sur un pied le temps de se faire pardonner (d'où la provenance, vous l'aurez deviné, du nom du pic); les hindouistes, quant à eux, y voient la trace du Dieu Shiva; tandis que les bouddhistes y voient l'empreinte de Bouddha laissée lors de sa dernière visite au Sri Lanka. Soit, tout le monde y trouve une raison pour vénérer l'endroit. Le pic d'Adam est donc la montagne la plus sacrée du Sri Lanka avec, à tous les jours, de nombreux pèlerins la visitant. Avec ses 5500 marches, et entre 3 à 5h de ... read more

By Polona After a week it was time to pack up and leave Uppuveli and “my husband” (the cook ). After checking with the boys, we left for the Trinco Railway station, only to find out that there are 2 trains daily heading to our destination (Hatton) – we already missed the first one and the next one was only in the evening. So, the best solution for us was to take a bus to Kandy (oh, no, no, no) and then switch buses to get to Hatton (and from there continue to our destination: Dalhousie, a village under Adam's Peak). We calculated we should arrive to Delhousie in the evening, boy, were we wrong. The bus from Trinco to Kandy took ages, even though it's only about 200km between the two. I think it took ... read more

As you all are aware, I haven’t blogged for a while. This is down to many, many reasons but can be summed up by the old adage “if you’ve got nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all”! I’m not going into the reasons here, but feel free to ask me upon my return and I will endeavour to enlighten you! I do however now have something nice to write, so here goes! On Christmas Eve morning I was sat at the top of Adam’s Peak (or Sri Pada, as it is also known) a very large mountain, watching the sunrise. It was magic. We set off at 4pm from Hikkaduwa in a car. Our original car had crashed on the way to pick us up, so we had to get another one at ... read more

We only needed 2.30h for 5600 steps. On 2500meter high. It was great. Going up with the pilgrams at 2o'clock in the morning. For us very early and so cold. the best we ever did.... read more