Sigiriya – The Lion Rock
Sigiriya – The Lion Rock – is perhaps the most emblematic image of Sri Lanka. It is an incredible sight at a distance and up close.
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Ancient Delights at Kandy
Kandy is Sri Lanka’s second city and was its last royal capital. It is an important cultural centre with the Temple of the Tooth taking centre stage.
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Sri Lanka’s Central Hills
Sri Lanka’s Central Hills are great territory for hiking, picturesque train journeys, and taking in the verdant and undulating tropical landscape against a backdrop of low mountains.
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Yala National Park
Yala National Park is a popular destination for safaris in the south of Sri Lanka. It has the highest population density of leopards in the world.
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The Fortress City of Galle
Sunset from the fortress city of Galle is quite a sight. Locals take their evening stroll along the old fortress walls with the mist rising from the sea. Families picnic on the palm-tree flanked open green while children fly their kites.
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Vancouver
Following two weeks trekking and canoeing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, it was time to board The Canadian again for the thirty-hour train journey from Edmonton to Vancouver. I figured that an economy seat would be fine for that leg of the journey – wrong! Unlike the sleeper carriage, where passengers were friendly and chatty,…
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The Athabasca River
The Athabasca River is just over 1500 kilometres and the longest river in Alberta. Whilst the area has a wide diversity of wildlife, the only creature I saw during four days of canoeing and camping was an eagle.
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Jasper National Park’s Maligne Lake
Jasper National Park’s Maligne Lake is the largest natural lake in the Canadian Rockies. A long with a day backtracking to the Colombia Icefield made a great culmination to our hiking in the Rockies. I enjoyed the beauty of Maligne Lake and its surrounding mountains and glaciers at leisure drinking coffee and eating cake. As…
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Icefields Parkway
The next leg of the journey through the Canadian Rocky Mountains was following the Icefields Parkway that runs from Lake Louise to Jasper. It’s a journey of approximately 230 kilometres along Highway 93 North passing through spectacular scenery giving a great opportunity to appreciate stunning glaciers, lakes and mountains on the way.
