Negombo,Sri Lanka

 Arrived late,late Wednesday night,getting used to temperatures in the 30 ,s and high humidity and beginning to feel like a human being again after the 24 hr trip to get here.Met Kumar the Tuk Tuk driver and he has shown me around Negombo and surrounds.Negombo functions as a sort of tourist transit town,it is closer to the airport than Colombo and has a lot of low cost hotels and restaurants,it also has a long beach and surf and not much else,yesterday I visited a Church,A Hindu Temple and a Buddhist temple to get insurance for the rest of the trip,also an Ayuvedic spice plantation where local homeopathic medicines are created.The fish market which smells as attractive as it sounds and the remains of a 1578 Portugese fort which now has become the local prison.

Saint Mary's Negombo

Hindu Temple

Buddhist Temple

Fish Market

Old Portugese Fort