The picture below is a panorama shot of the pathana.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Pitawala pathana
When you travel through Sri Lanka something that would never fail to impress is the variety of landscapes that unfolds in front of the eye. Within the variety on exhibition in the central hills the pathana plains stand out, this place in the knuckles ranges is a grass plane with spectacular views.
The picture below is a panorama shot of the pathana.
On the Map and getting there,
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The picture below is a panorama shot of the pathana.
On the Map and getting there,
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Victoria Dam - A different angle
I had one big reason to not to write about this place, but unfortunately its one of the days in which I had run out of ideas, so left without an option. The reason why I hate to write about it is that, their are few who claim that Teldeniya as "Kandy 7" and keeps on boasting, I cannot unfortunately write everything about the place in public since it will be insulting for the whole of Kandy too. Anyway one thing that I cannot deny is that the place is beautiful and the crown jewel of the town is the Dam.
The dam is the largest hydro electric power plan in the country and the sight of it with the flood gates fully opened during the monsoon seasons is quiet a treat to watch! Since its an arch shaped dam usual pictures you would have seen would clear show the curve. The picture below is a bit different and taken from a face on angle from a hill near the golf course near by. It show the damn nicely nested within the mountain range.
Below is a picture of sun setting over the picturesque dam.
The dam is the largest hydro electric power plan in the country and the sight of it with the flood gates fully opened during the monsoon seasons is quiet a treat to watch! Since its an arch shaped dam usual pictures you would have seen would clear show the curve. The picture below is a bit different and taken from a face on angle from a hill near the golf course near by. It show the damn nicely nested within the mountain range.
Below is a picture of sun setting over the picturesque dam.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Ella in Pictures
Last few days I have been blogging about Ella Trip. Today I will finish off the story with the pictures from there.
A complete luck by chance picture of the moving Colombo Badulla train and I am sure I am going to be showing off this picture for a long time to come.
Ella Gap
The scenic view of the Ella gap
The Ravana Falls
The views from Mini Adams Peak
Demodara Loop
The model of the famous railway loop.
Nine Arch Bridge
Other Ella Pics
Ella Location on the Map
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A complete luck by chance picture of the moving Colombo Badulla train and I am sure I am going to be showing off this picture for a long time to come.
Ella Gap
The scenic view of the Ella gap
The Ravana Falls
The views from Mini Adams Peak
Demodara Loop
The model of the famous railway loop.
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Nine Arch Bridge
Other Ella Pics
Ella Location on the Map
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Back from Ella
As soon as I finished my last blog and looked around the guys were already in deep sleep on the grass patch at the top of mini Adams peak. I too put my phone away and closed my eyes. The gentle breeze and the perfect shade made it a perfect place to sleep.
What I remember next is hearing a huge thunder and was shaken out of the sleep. I suddenly see that the climate has changed, it has almost got dark, the clouds had set in and the thunder and lighting had got closer. But still 3 guys were snoring and fast asleep without being woken up by even the huge thunder. Since it was my "responsibility", I made sure I took pics of them sleeping before trying to wake them up ;)
When I try to wake up one guy he asked, "where am I?", the other guy said "ah I was feeling like Gulliver being attacked by the ants here", next guy woke up with red eyes and asked "damn it, what time is it?". All of us felt the calm of the place absorbing us. If not for the environment I doubt that people within an hour's sleep would be dreaming, snoring and forgetting the time consciousness.
The locals tell me that when Lord Buddha visited Sri Lanka he has visited the mini Adam's peak, but has supposedly was disappointed that the farmers were working at the fields on a poya day and quipped that the place is with sinners and opted to head to the place currently refereed as Adams peak without staying here for too long.
Right opposite the peak we could see the Ravana rock and Ravana ella. The place which they tell us as the place where ravana hid seetha. Anyway I have no idea about the accuracy of the information.
We made our way downhill in double quick time to avoid getting caught in the rain. We made our way to Ella grand hotel, which was a bit of an expensive place when compared to local standards, but the view and the environment and food made it value for money. We had some snacks and then headed to the railway station. Got 2nd class tickets which cost 350 Rs, which is 100 less than sleeper rates, but the risk was that a seat was not guaranteed. Anyway since it was a Saturday night we managed to get seats from Ella itself.
Train started from Ella at 7 PM and we reached Colombo fort by 7 AM. It was a nice unplanned trip which went to plan. The Badulla up country train trip is worth to be taken at least once in a lifetime!
What I remember next is hearing a huge thunder and was shaken out of the sleep. I suddenly see that the climate has changed, it has almost got dark, the clouds had set in and the thunder and lighting had got closer. But still 3 guys were snoring and fast asleep without being woken up by even the huge thunder. Since it was my "responsibility", I made sure I took pics of them sleeping before trying to wake them up ;)
When I try to wake up one guy he asked, "where am I?", the other guy said "ah I was feeling like Gulliver being attacked by the ants here", next guy woke up with red eyes and asked "damn it, what time is it?". All of us felt the calm of the place absorbing us. If not for the environment I doubt that people within an hour's sleep would be dreaming, snoring and forgetting the time consciousness.
The locals tell me that when Lord Buddha visited Sri Lanka he has visited the mini Adam's peak, but has supposedly was disappointed that the farmers were working at the fields on a poya day and quipped that the place is with sinners and opted to head to the place currently refereed as Adams peak without staying here for too long.
Right opposite the peak we could see the Ravana rock and Ravana ella. The place which they tell us as the place where ravana hid seetha. Anyway I have no idea about the accuracy of the information.
We made our way downhill in double quick time to avoid getting caught in the rain. We made our way to Ella grand hotel, which was a bit of an expensive place when compared to local standards, but the view and the environment and food made it value for money. We had some snacks and then headed to the railway station. Got 2nd class tickets which cost 350 Rs, which is 100 less than sleeper rates, but the risk was that a seat was not guaranteed. Anyway since it was a Saturday night we managed to get seats from Ella itself.
Train started from Ella at 7 PM and we reached Colombo fort by 7 AM. It was a nice unplanned trip which went to plan. The Badulla up country train trip is worth to be taken at least once in a lifetime!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Ella Adventure Day 2
Top of the mini Adams peak, lied under a tree and listening to the swaying of the leaves and the occasional thunder from far away, while the guys are trying to interpret the folk lore of Ella in their own wildest imaginary terms yours truly is trying to make an attempt to summarize how the day progressed.
We decided to get down from the train at Demodara instead of ella, we reached there by about 6 AM. This allowed us to get a view at the famous railway architectural marvel by the name of the Demodra loop or the railway knot or the railway loop. As the story goes, the train lines from the two ends couldn't be connected to each other since the maximum inclination allowed at that time was smaller than the inclination between the two lines. Apparently when the architects were without a solution in hand a kid has suggested the loop like structure using his turban as an analogy. English architects took the cue from his thought and built this railway loop.
After taking a walk along the loop we decided to take a walk along the railway line crossing another iconic railway architecture by the name of nine arch bridge, supposedly built without concrete and it still stands and then reached Ella by continuing to walk along the railway line, it was a long but nice walk with the scenic up country views with a mix of tea plantations and the pine forests. Then we had a nice view of Ella gap, then a bath at Ravana ella and then hiked to the peak of mini adams peak. Since we have covered all the places we wanted to cover, we are considering the option of taking the night mail train for the return trip to avoid the disappointment of having to stand all the way to Colombo as we have been told that since its a Sunday it will be crowded.
When I return will update the posts with pictures and more details. Will keep you guys posted. Now time for me to doze off while gazing at the sky and the valley at the horizon!
We decided to get down from the train at Demodara instead of ella, we reached there by about 6 AM. This allowed us to get a view at the famous railway architectural marvel by the name of the Demodra loop or the railway knot or the railway loop. As the story goes, the train lines from the two ends couldn't be connected to each other since the maximum inclination allowed at that time was smaller than the inclination between the two lines. Apparently when the architects were without a solution in hand a kid has suggested the loop like structure using his turban as an analogy. English architects took the cue from his thought and built this railway loop.
After taking a walk along the loop we decided to take a walk along the railway line crossing another iconic railway architecture by the name of nine arch bridge, supposedly built without concrete and it still stands and then reached Ella by continuing to walk along the railway line, it was a long but nice walk with the scenic up country views with a mix of tea plantations and the pine forests. Then we had a nice view of Ella gap, then a bath at Ravana ella and then hiked to the peak of mini adams peak. Since we have covered all the places we wanted to cover, we are considering the option of taking the night mail train for the return trip to avoid the disappointment of having to stand all the way to Colombo as we have been told that since its a Sunday it will be crowded.
When I return will update the posts with pictures and more details. Will keep you guys posted. Now time for me to doze off while gazing at the sky and the valley at the horizon!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Ella Adventure live blog - Day 1
3 idiots found 2 more idiots and had just started on a trip to Ella. Thanks to the generous ticket buyer we have a one way tickets in hand ;) its sleeper rates 2nd class tickets marked as 343 Rs but the price is 450 Rs, but as it stands now no mode of return and no place to stay and doesn't know what to expect. 3 idiots already declared that they don't have any expectation and knowing Taj mahal train trip how can you expect anything more. If you haven't read it find it under the himalayan heights link on top.
Would be interesting to see how this will go. I will make sure that I keep you updated about the adventures.
The train is expected to head to Kandy and then the through the famous up country route and just now the train started to stroll sharp at 8 PM from Ella.
Would be interesting to see how this will go. I will make sure that I keep you updated about the adventures.
The train is expected to head to Kandy and then the through the famous up country route and just now the train started to stroll sharp at 8 PM from Ella.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Dignity of Labour
While being at school our English Teacher tried her level best to drill into us the importance of respecting all kind of jobs and accepting the fact that one job is not greater than another. She used to point out that we Sri Lankans are really bad at this. At that point of time I didn't understand what she really meant. I used to think that I get on well with anyone hence I do respect the dignity of labor. With more exposure and experience now I value and understand the wisdom that she tried to impart on us.
Local caste system was based on the job a person did and this has engraved a culture of disrespecting certain type of jobs or at least had created a mentality of considering certain castes/job to be superior to the other. At the surface caste system invisible in our current society, but deeply within the mind the damage is already done. Most of the disrespect that we show to certain professions might not be originating at a conscious level but at an unconscious level. Think of the following instances and see whether if you are showing disrespect at an unconscious level,
1. Do you refer or people in certain profession with a respectful tone and people of another profession in another tone ( in Tamil like avan and avar, in Sinhala eya or aroo ), specially in informal chats with friends or family?
2. Do you alway think that you want to be served and doesn't want to serve?
3. Would you discourage someone from taking a certain job, since you consider that job to be held in lower esteem by the society?
If the answer to any one of the above is Yes, I am sure you are at least showing disrespect at an unconscious level. But then I am sure 9 out of 10 of us will fall into this category. We at large haven't still come to accept that there is life beyond stereo typical superior jobs and that others are also professions which need expertise and skill. Realizing this might not happen over night but if we are to mature as a society and become progressive instilling this and removing even the unconscious superiority complex that we hold is crucial.
Local caste system was based on the job a person did and this has engraved a culture of disrespecting certain type of jobs or at least had created a mentality of considering certain castes/job to be superior to the other. At the surface caste system invisible in our current society, but deeply within the mind the damage is already done. Most of the disrespect that we show to certain professions might not be originating at a conscious level but at an unconscious level. Think of the following instances and see whether if you are showing disrespect at an unconscious level,
1. Do you refer or people in certain profession with a respectful tone and people of another profession in another tone ( in Tamil like avan and avar, in Sinhala eya or aroo ), specially in informal chats with friends or family?
2. Do you alway think that you want to be served and doesn't want to serve?
3. Would you discourage someone from taking a certain job, since you consider that job to be held in lower esteem by the society?
If the answer to any one of the above is Yes, I am sure you are at least showing disrespect at an unconscious level. But then I am sure 9 out of 10 of us will fall into this category. We at large haven't still come to accept that there is life beyond stereo typical superior jobs and that others are also professions which need expertise and skill. Realizing this might not happen over night but if we are to mature as a society and become progressive instilling this and removing even the unconscious superiority complex that we hold is crucial.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Great Sales People on the Kandy Colombo Train
The train journey from Kandy to Colombo is fascinating. I have taken this journey countless number of times but it never fails to impress. The stretch from Fort to Kandy takes you through different landscapes. I have already written a blog about the landscapes and the surroundings click here to read it. The focus of this post is not on the surrounding but on three sales people who impressed me. They are ordinary people exhibiting some strange qualities as per our usual standards.
The vadai seller
Apparently he has been selling vadai (an indian short eat) in the train for the last 8 years. He is a stylish act, the way he handles the vadai impresses everyone. He first takes a piece of paper and places it nicely in his left hand , he uses the tong and picks the vadai with it and embeds it in the paper on the left hand. Then picks the knife and slices the vadai into two. Then he picks the spoon and applies the chillie paste. All this is done with style and grace. Each vadai is prepared in this way and then given to the customer. It has become the most sort after eatery in the train, I know people who have his mobile number and give him a call and inform the compartment they are in, because they do not want to take the risk of not getting a vadai because he runs out of stock very often.
This mans craft has not only charmed the locals but also the foreigners, who make it a point to taste his 20/= vadai. The best part came last Friday, he walked into the compartment, there was a large family travelling in it. I think they were either first time train travelers or one off travelers. Obviously they were not interested in buying from him, since they didn't know how it would taste and very easily he could have also walked away not worrying about them since it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that he can finish his days stock whether this family buys or not. This brought out the shrewed businessmen in him, he made an offer to one of the family member to try his vadai for free! Within the next 15 minutes I saw the family pay him for that vadai and also buying 7 more from him. I was left amazed and was wondering man didn't he do a (W)hoAreWee.
The kadala seller
The second sales person is a very old person who sells grams, peanuts and other bean packets. He is very chirpy when it comes to selling. One day he showed of his English skill to a group of foreigners. His punch line to sell packets was "Pick One Any One!". Later on I got to know he is a very knowledgeable man, who does this in his old age while being in retirement from a government job.
Train canteen
3rd guy is the guy who runs the canteen in the intercity train, he goes around distributing food items and strangely he is not interested in collecting money immediately. In a nation where, people normally take the money before giving a good, this behavior was very strange to me. After an hour or so he comes around and people call him and pay him the money. I was told that when he is out of change, he refuses to take the excessive money from the passenger and tells the passenger its easier for you to remember me, than for me to remember whom I owe money to, so you may give the balance next time you travel. He plays into the conscience of people and strangely he creates a culture where people make sure that they find him and make the payment for what ever they eat!
Irrespective of the scale you are doing in, Sales is a unique art and not everyone can do it. You should have the skill in you to do it and I guess its a skill you should be born with. If I was in their positions I am sure I would have just walked away not trying to sell the new family and also would have made sure I collect the money before I give the food. But these men think differently and become successful in their own right.
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| Train winding through Kadugannwa |
The vadai seller
Apparently he has been selling vadai (an indian short eat) in the train for the last 8 years. He is a stylish act, the way he handles the vadai impresses everyone. He first takes a piece of paper and places it nicely in his left hand , he uses the tong and picks the vadai with it and embeds it in the paper on the left hand. Then picks the knife and slices the vadai into two. Then he picks the spoon and applies the chillie paste. All this is done with style and grace. Each vadai is prepared in this way and then given to the customer. It has become the most sort after eatery in the train, I know people who have his mobile number and give him a call and inform the compartment they are in, because they do not want to take the risk of not getting a vadai because he runs out of stock very often.
This mans craft has not only charmed the locals but also the foreigners, who make it a point to taste his 20/= vadai. The best part came last Friday, he walked into the compartment, there was a large family travelling in it. I think they were either first time train travelers or one off travelers. Obviously they were not interested in buying from him, since they didn't know how it would taste and very easily he could have also walked away not worrying about them since it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that he can finish his days stock whether this family buys or not. This brought out the shrewed businessmen in him, he made an offer to one of the family member to try his vadai for free! Within the next 15 minutes I saw the family pay him for that vadai and also buying 7 more from him. I was left amazed and was wondering man didn't he do a (W)hoAreWee.
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The kadala seller
The second sales person is a very old person who sells grams, peanuts and other bean packets. He is very chirpy when it comes to selling. One day he showed of his English skill to a group of foreigners. His punch line to sell packets was "Pick One Any One!". Later on I got to know he is a very knowledgeable man, who does this in his old age while being in retirement from a government job.
Train canteen
3rd guy is the guy who runs the canteen in the intercity train, he goes around distributing food items and strangely he is not interested in collecting money immediately. In a nation where, people normally take the money before giving a good, this behavior was very strange to me. After an hour or so he comes around and people call him and pay him the money. I was told that when he is out of change, he refuses to take the excessive money from the passenger and tells the passenger its easier for you to remember me, than for me to remember whom I owe money to, so you may give the balance next time you travel. He plays into the conscience of people and strangely he creates a culture where people make sure that they find him and make the payment for what ever they eat!
Irrespective of the scale you are doing in, Sales is a unique art and not everyone can do it. You should have the skill in you to do it and I guess its a skill you should be born with. If I was in their positions I am sure I would have just walked away not trying to sell the new family and also would have made sure I collect the money before I give the food. But these men think differently and become successful in their own right.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Mobile Money - Do we have a case for Sri Lanka?
Mobile money today has become a very broad term encompassing any monetary type of transaction being done using a mobile device. The GSMA tries to categorize this into 6 [1], Pay buy Mobile, Mobile Ticketing, Mobile Money Advisory Services, Mobile Money Transfer, Mobile Signatures and Mobile Money for Unbanked.
What interest me most is the concept of Mobile Money for Unbanked or to make it sound better the mobile wallet concept. Mobile wallet concept will allow the mobile operators to offer mobile wallets to its subscribers, which will be separate from the air time account. When this service is offered, just like the way we do reload/recharge/top up we can goto the agents(small shops offering top up) and ask them to deposit money to the mobile wallet. But the crucial difference is that we can also goto these agents and make withdrawals or transfers to friends, family, utility payment or purchases using the money in the mobile wallet.
I have seen few countries where this is implemented, but two countries stand out. One is the safaricom's (Kenyan) implementation of M-PESA and the other is Globes (Philiphines) G-Cash. M-Pesa's success is mind boggling and clearly visible, you get into a taxi and the taxi driver will be more than willing to accept the payment using a mobile wallet transfer. Cashless transaction taking place at the grass root level. It has become part of peoples lives, just like cash is part of our lives. In the same way G-Cash's implementation has been successful and now it has become an acceptable and affordable international remittance mechanism.
Although its a huge success in Kenya, mobile money hasn't still reached the commercial success of the same magnitude when implemented in its neighboring Tanzania. Lot of debate had been done on this and people are trying to find the reasons for it being successful in some countries and not being so successful in others. I have heard people tell me that its a cultural thing, it depends on the size of the country, depends on the operator who deploys it.
Mobile money has now started to spread fast and the uptake in the developing countries had been very rapid. The GSM world boasts about 100 deployments and 87 on its way [2]. In almost all the deployments, there had been two clear beneficiaries from these implementations, one of them of course are the mobile operators, this is an extra revenue stream for them and it brings in stickiness to the network. Secondly it has benefited the unbanked population, the rural masses who didn't have branches nearby and whose income levels were below a few dollars per day and banking transactions were deemed to be too expensive for them, the masses who considered having cash in hand to be insecure, the people wanted to do to remittances or transfers of small scale. With mobile money being introduced it infused a new kind of economy into the system.
Now the question here is why not in Sri Lanka?
If I am not mistaken currently operators are not allowed to implement the mobile money solution due to a Central bank regulation which doesn't allow non financial institutions to take deposits. I am sure banks will be happy with this regulation being in place, as they could view this as a way of pre-empting a possible competition. But when the overall context is looked upon I think Sri Lanka is a country which is with a large unbanked population and due to the cost of setting up banking infrastructure reaching them will continue to be a challenge, there is a large community who are in need of having a simple way of making remittances to their loved ones in quick time, still there are places where people consider its insecure to have too much money in hand, hence would prefer to put it into a mobile wallet. this leads to think that the mobile money solution should be allowed into the system. But the challenge will be to regulate and impose a regulation on the organizations offering it. It can be considered as an additional license to the operators I guess, and a regulation where they need to show liquidity to up to a certain percentage of the total deposit they have at hand at any given time. I think as a country we need to work out a viable solution to enable this solution which could help the people at the grass root level.
[1] http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/mobile_lifestyle/mobile_money/index.htm
[2]http://www.wirelessintelligence.com/mobile-money/unbanked/
[3] http://mmublog.org/blog/
[4] http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=250
[5] http://site.globe.com.ph/web/gcash?sid=TcLKosuxpRYAACXipGgAAACde
What interest me most is the concept of Mobile Money for Unbanked or to make it sound better the mobile wallet concept. Mobile wallet concept will allow the mobile operators to offer mobile wallets to its subscribers, which will be separate from the air time account. When this service is offered, just like the way we do reload/recharge/top up we can goto the agents(small shops offering top up) and ask them to deposit money to the mobile wallet. But the crucial difference is that we can also goto these agents and make withdrawals or transfers to friends, family, utility payment or purchases using the money in the mobile wallet.
I have seen few countries where this is implemented, but two countries stand out. One is the safaricom's (Kenyan) implementation of M-PESA and the other is Globes (Philiphines) G-Cash. M-Pesa's success is mind boggling and clearly visible, you get into a taxi and the taxi driver will be more than willing to accept the payment using a mobile wallet transfer. Cashless transaction taking place at the grass root level. It has become part of peoples lives, just like cash is part of our lives. In the same way G-Cash's implementation has been successful and now it has become an acceptable and affordable international remittance mechanism.
Although its a huge success in Kenya, mobile money hasn't still reached the commercial success of the same magnitude when implemented in its neighboring Tanzania. Lot of debate had been done on this and people are trying to find the reasons for it being successful in some countries and not being so successful in others. I have heard people tell me that its a cultural thing, it depends on the size of the country, depends on the operator who deploys it.
Mobile money has now started to spread fast and the uptake in the developing countries had been very rapid. The GSM world boasts about 100 deployments and 87 on its way [2]. In almost all the deployments, there had been two clear beneficiaries from these implementations, one of them of course are the mobile operators, this is an extra revenue stream for them and it brings in stickiness to the network. Secondly it has benefited the unbanked population, the rural masses who didn't have branches nearby and whose income levels were below a few dollars per day and banking transactions were deemed to be too expensive for them, the masses who considered having cash in hand to be insecure, the people wanted to do to remittances or transfers of small scale. With mobile money being introduced it infused a new kind of economy into the system.
Now the question here is why not in Sri Lanka?
If I am not mistaken currently operators are not allowed to implement the mobile money solution due to a Central bank regulation which doesn't allow non financial institutions to take deposits. I am sure banks will be happy with this regulation being in place, as they could view this as a way of pre-empting a possible competition. But when the overall context is looked upon I think Sri Lanka is a country which is with a large unbanked population and due to the cost of setting up banking infrastructure reaching them will continue to be a challenge, there is a large community who are in need of having a simple way of making remittances to their loved ones in quick time, still there are places where people consider its insecure to have too much money in hand, hence would prefer to put it into a mobile wallet. this leads to think that the mobile money solution should be allowed into the system. But the challenge will be to regulate and impose a regulation on the organizations offering it. It can be considered as an additional license to the operators I guess, and a regulation where they need to show liquidity to up to a certain percentage of the total deposit they have at hand at any given time. I think as a country we need to work out a viable solution to enable this solution which could help the people at the grass root level.
[1] http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/mobile_lifestyle/mobile_money/index.htm
[2]http://www.wirelessintelligence.com/mobile-money/unbanked/
[3] http://mmublog.org/blog/
[4] http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=250
[5] http://site.globe.com.ph/web/gcash?sid=TcLKosuxpRYAACXipGgAAACde
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Kandy
Very often I am asked by people why I like Kandy so much, sometimes they put the question the other way around, when they ask, why I hate Colombo. Its pretty hard to explain to a person who has not been there, but on the other hand I don't have to explain this to a person who had lived there.
The reasons cover the entire spectrum of human life, starting from the people, climate, surroundings and the list goes on. People from Colombo never fail to question, "so why aren't you being in Kandy?". But then the only weakness of Kandy is that its not a commercial hub, so to make a living most people opt to go to other places. But they still live with found memories of the times they had there and never fail to go back to Kandy at every given chance.
I just made this comparison, out of those who come from different parts of the country to work in Colombo its the people who had lived in Kandy who make sure they rush back there whenever given a chance, just go on a Friday to the fort railway station or the bus stand you would see it, its only the queue to Kandy is crowded , where as others rather tend to stay back as they doesn't seem to see much differences between staying in Colombo and their hometown.
I am sure, I am going to get some critical comments from some people of Colombo (btw how do u call them colombians? ), bring it on I am ready to face the music.
Read my past post in taking a train journey too, http://balagowri.blogspot.com/2010/01/train-ride-from-kandy-to-colombo.html
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| Kandy lake at sunset |
The reasons cover the entire spectrum of human life, starting from the people, climate, surroundings and the list goes on. People from Colombo never fail to question, "so why aren't you being in Kandy?". But then the only weakness of Kandy is that its not a commercial hub, so to make a living most people opt to go to other places. But they still live with found memories of the times they had there and never fail to go back to Kandy at every given chance.
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| Colours at the Kandy lake |
I just made this comparison, out of those who come from different parts of the country to work in Colombo its the people who had lived in Kandy who make sure they rush back there whenever given a chance, just go on a Friday to the fort railway station or the bus stand you would see it, its only the queue to Kandy is crowded , where as others rather tend to stay back as they doesn't seem to see much differences between staying in Colombo and their hometown.
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| Kandy lake (on extreme left and extreme right) and Kadugannawa in the middle | ||
I am sure, I am going to get some critical comments from some people of Colombo (btw how do u call them colombians? ), bring it on I am ready to face the music.
Read my past post in taking a train journey too, http://balagowri.blogspot.com/2010/01/train-ride-from-kandy-to-colombo.html
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| Digana |
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