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Category: 2017

Posted on April 3, 2020February 27, 2021

Sri Lanka: The sea Lanka

It was that year of 2017. Due to successive and (by a cruel turn of fate) non-overlapping months of work assignments in the USA, my wife and I had spent a year away from each other. In October, she was to come down for a few weeks and we decided to spend a good ten …

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Posted on January 30, 2020June 22, 2020

SL Day 0 – Landing in Lanka

A visit to Sri Lanka requires Indian visitors to hold an e-visa. The process to obtain a visa was pretty straight-forward and can be completed online here. On our way to the airport to board the 9:00 PM flight, the skies opened up and with the Bangalore traffic it was a messy affair. The only …

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Posted on January 30, 2020February 27, 2021

SL Day 1 – Oh, Crab!

On trips, I make a deliberate effort to stack up the days of most action, travel or uncertainty right at the top. With this approach, though we wear out physically, as the trip progresses we can rest longer and process the new world we have seen. By the time we reach the close of trip, …

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