On the road again with Intrepid

Flew into Sri Lanka yesterday and met up with my travelcompanions from Intrepid in Negombo. We are a full group this time, and that mean that we are 12 travellers on the road. We are 6 Australians, 2 Germans, 2 Americans (USA), 1 Irish and 1 Norwegian, and we are quite spread out in age, guessing from late 20's till early 60's, so we should be a good mix, for some strange reason am I assosiating myself toward the younger crowd, even I'm not that young eny more. :) It seams to be a group of nice people, 4 knew each other from before, the rest was unknown to each other. Last night we went for dinner, and a few driks in the hotel bar after, and today have we been on the minibus from Negombo to Anuradhapura (some difficult names here, and I do not think that I will manage to remember them all). It was a 6 hour ride, with some stops on the way for shopping, photostop at a hindu temple, taking a look at how they use the coconut and harvest it, with tast sample of coconut water, coconut flower "juice" straight from the tree, coconut "meat" and at the end for some lunch - curry off course, very spicy!

The man on a wire, is the one who is "milking the coconut flower, and he is using the rope between the trees so he do not have to walk up and down every tree. Looks like a dangeroud job I think, but according to our tourleader, it was not many accident, and I would not be surprise if the few accident that happends, is fatal.
We will be staying in Anuradhapura for 2 nights, I the guesthouse is nice, the room is just amazing, very big. AC and tv is also nice.

Since we have spendt some hours on the road today, it have given us some experience with the traffic. It is not crazy, or at not Vietnam crazy, but it is not like home either, far from it. It is almost always room to overtake the car in front of you, the bigger you are, the bigger are your right to do it. So one is overtaking even if there are wihicles coming towards you, it goes well, and we have not seen any accidents this first day. The nature we are passing is green, very green and nice, and we have also been crossing some bridges over well filled rivers. It looks beautiful.

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