Day 2 - Wednesday 6 September After breakfast, we met our driver Perera from Tangerine Tours who drove us to Muthurajawela Wetlands which is north of Colombo. We drove along the main toll highway for approx. an hour, watching the other side of the road which was chock-a-block full of cars with workers driving into Colombo. We were pleased we were driving the other way. However, on our return to Colombo, we were amongst the 100s of cars. We turned off the main road, onto a very narrow lane and soon arrived at the boat centre which was also an interpretive centre for the Muthurajawela Sanctuary. Muthurajawela is a marsh the southern region of the Negombo lagoon, 30 km north of Colombo. The Muthurajawela Marshes are 7,580 acres in area and the country's largest saline coastal
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