19.10.2024
Day 11
Today we are travelling North, still driving through the eastern coastline to Trincomalee, a major resort port city on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka. We took the Trincomalee highway, a two lane highway, but the traffic is very light and we made good progress. Surprisingly we didn’t see much agricultural activity - there were vast areas of barren land. Major crop seems to be coconut and some cashew. At some places we could see palm trees.
The city is built on a peninsula. Trincomalee is one of the main centres of Sri Lankan Tamil culture and we met a number of Tamil speaking people and Muslims and one of them even spoke Malayalam fluently.
There are several historical monuments depicting Tamil culture and we saw a number of such structures on our way.
We are booked at Oceanfront condominium on a beach at Nilaveli, about 14 kms from Trincomalee. We found this place on Air BnB and it turned out to be a great choice.
After check in fulltankers went out for a swim and refreshed we are back in the condominium to prepare dinner - earlier we had decided to cook meals for ourselves in the cond and had bought provisions. Fulltanker Mathew Varghese took the lead in preparing dinner.
Sri Lanka’s beach culture varies by location and Nilaveli has a stunning beach with a wealth of wildlife, including reef fish, corals and coconut palm groves.
The beaches in Sri Lanka are very clean. There is no garbage anywhere and they keep the place spick and span. Besides there are no vendors or touts harassing the tourists.
End of day eleven.
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