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Sri Lanka: days 4-6

By day 4 I felt well and truly settled into the Sri Lankan way, and spent the next couple of days doing some exploring and spending time with my new housemates.
One morning before project we spent the morning on Ambalangoda beach, our most local beach at a mere 10 minutes tuk tuk away. At the time I was in Sri Lanka and the area I was in, the sea was very rough and choppy so difficult if not impossible to swim in, but it was nice to have a morning attempting (and failing) to tan. The beach literally looked like a postcard, with bright turquoise sea and white sand, dotted with palm trees. We then spent the afternoon at projects before a brilliant if not eventful house party at one of the volunteer houses.






The next day we went a little further afeild towards Hikaduwa and visited the Tsunami Photo Museum, a place created and run by an inspiring family in the very same spot the tsunami of 2004 took over their home and their lives. Their makeshift house faces the coastline and is covered with photographs, newspaper cuttings and information about the tsunami and is free to visit, however there is the option to give a donation towards the maintenance and upkeep of the museum, which is a hard opportunity not to take given how moved you feel by theirs and many others stories of the tsunami. 
After this unforgettable visit we travelled a further couple of minutes to visit a turtle conservation and hatchery, where we could see and hold a variety of turtles. For me this was a trip highlight!






After an afternoon of volunteering at our projects, we headed back towards Hikaduwa for a night of pizza and cocktails on the beach with most of the other volunteers.


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