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Published: June 25th 2014
Colombo
Typical street in the capital04/06/14
At sea. During the day we will maintain a West South Westerly course across Bengal Bay. The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the Northwestern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India, and Sri Lanka, to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Myanmar, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east. The Bay of Bengal occupies and area of 2,172,000 KM2.
There has been a bit if unsettling weather the past two days, with rain yesterday and a slight swell. The swell is minimal though similar to slight turbulence as of in an airplane.
05/06/14
Colombo: On our approach into the harbor I was standing on deck 15 admiring the view, and noticed a lady next to me with Rosary beads in her hand, she seemed to be praying. As we entered the harbor we had to turn 180 degrees, which was very tight, the stern of the ship appeared as though it was going to collide with the lighthouse on the breakwall, the lady cried out “we are going to hit.” Well with
Colombo taxi
Very friendly locals my not so perfect vision for judging distances, I replied that we would be okay, but guess what???? We missed it, no drama.
After breakfast we boarded our bus for a Colombo city highlights tour, Sri Lanka is a developing country, where there is a lot of poverty and begging in the street. We had one poor man with no hands begging for money plus a lady with two children hanging off her hip, this outside a major retail shop.
I have to admit that both Colleen and I would be reluctant to return here, so we can only imagine what India will be like. The streets were dirty and we were advised to watch our possessions and not to leave them on the bus when visiting temples etc.
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