Day 7: Bentota, Sri Lanka & Columbo, Sri Lanka
We woke up to rain, and were so sad to think that we might miss out on a little more beach fun. :( We had breakfast and luckily the rain subsided and we were able to enjoy the pool and then the beach and then the pool again. It was still overcast but I actually prefer it to be cloudy when I'm at the beach so its not tooo hot. After getting our fill of beach and swimming we headed back to the turtle hatchery so my sons could hold the turtles one last time. They did not want to leave, but eventually we headed to Columbo. We took a driving tour around the city, and my husband stopped inside the biggest buddhist temple in Columbo. Once we had seen enough of the city we headed to our hotel room which had a view of the ocean and the parliament building. It was a very pretty view and was a nice hotel room to end our trip in. Not the prettiest of rooms but comfortable and clean.
Day 8: Columbo, Sri Lanka
Woke up super early, headed to the buffet and ate some breakfast and headed to the airport to catch our plane back to Riyadh. The end.
Some of the fruits we tried because I cannot for the life of me remember which day and when and where in the story it fits were mangosteen, jack fruit, dorian fruit, red bananas, lemon bananas, pineapple. The mangosteen was sooooooooo sweet! I loved it..reminded me a little of lychee fruit. Jack fruit I was not a fan of..apparently it is a fruit that grows to be over 20 kg or something like that...when it is smaller and "young" they use it as a vegetable in their curries and when it is big and ripe they eat it as a fruit. It had a weird texture and not an appealing flavor at all to me. My husband didn't mind it though. Red bananas tasted like normal bananas so I was disappointed, apparently red bananas are more rare there and are only used for special occasions. Lemon bananas were also just bananas to me...they had a stronger flavor I guess...maybe slightly tangy. But both were very good bananas and very flavorful. Pineapples were amaaaaaaazing!!! so so soooo good! Did not make my tongue itch at all...and pineapple nearly always makes my tongue itch. The last fruit...dorian fruit....was the most disgusting fruit I have ever had the displeasure of eating. First off the smell was absolutely rancid! It smelled like rotting, decomping, garbage filled with really old baby diapers...it was nasty! I don't know what compelled the sri lankans to even try eating something that smelled so awful even before cutting into the peel. I mean my motto is smells like trash not going into my mouth. Anyways...cutting into the peel to get the fruit lets out an even stronger even more horrible smell. I don't know why I ate it...probably because our tour guide swore that it smells horrible but tastes very good and sweet. Let me tell you...it did not taste good! It has a thin plasticy layer that gives it a slight bite...once you pop through that the inside is a creamy, custardy, cheesy texture. Taste-wise, first bite you think hmm okay...then as it sits in your mouth and you feel the texture of the first kind of crunchy bit mixed with the creamy weird texture of the inside fruit...its just plain nasty. My husband said it tasted like onion to him...I could kind of see how he would think that...but I can even find words to describe just how disgusting this fruit tasted. Everything about it was horrible...taste, smell, texture...EVERYTHING! And my tour guide bought a whole bag to take home too...so it sat in the car with us for a day. And our noses could not get used to the smell which led my husband to believe that the fruit is constantly giving off smell because otherwise our noses would have adjusted and we wouldn't even realize the fruit was in the car. And once the fruit was removed from the car there was still an after smell. It was probably the worst thing I have ever put into my mouth...right up there with ear wax...and I know everyone has tasted ear wax when they were little (it was an accident okay!)
As for foods I did like and eat nearly everyday I was there... string hoppers, coconut sambal, king coconut juice, dhal curry, and beef curry. YUUUUUUUM! My breakfast was string hoppers and coconut sambal nearly every day, sooo yummy! I need to learn how to make them!
But yes that is the end of our trip...and now I'm back in depressing Riyadh and hit full force with the depressing feelings, resentment, and anger at being a woman in Saudi Arabia.
(I decided to break up this post into three parts since it looked like a college essay when I posted it all together)
We woke up to rain, and were so sad to think that we might miss out on a little more beach fun. :( We had breakfast and luckily the rain subsided and we were able to enjoy the pool and then the beach and then the pool again. It was still overcast but I actually prefer it to be cloudy when I'm at the beach so its not tooo hot. After getting our fill of beach and swimming we headed back to the turtle hatchery so my sons could hold the turtles one last time. They did not want to leave, but eventually we headed to Columbo. We took a driving tour around the city, and my husband stopped inside the biggest buddhist temple in Columbo. Once we had seen enough of the city we headed to our hotel room which had a view of the ocean and the parliament building. It was a very pretty view and was a nice hotel room to end our trip in. Not the prettiest of rooms but comfortable and clean.
Day 8: Columbo, Sri Lanka
Woke up super early, headed to the buffet and ate some breakfast and headed to the airport to catch our plane back to Riyadh. The end.
Some of the fruits we tried because I cannot for the life of me remember which day and when and where in the story it fits were mangosteen, jack fruit, dorian fruit, red bananas, lemon bananas, pineapple. The mangosteen was sooooooooo sweet! I loved it..reminded me a little of lychee fruit. Jack fruit I was not a fan of..apparently it is a fruit that grows to be over 20 kg or something like that...when it is smaller and "young" they use it as a vegetable in their curries and when it is big and ripe they eat it as a fruit. It had a weird texture and not an appealing flavor at all to me. My husband didn't mind it though. Red bananas tasted like normal bananas so I was disappointed, apparently red bananas are more rare there and are only used for special occasions. Lemon bananas were also just bananas to me...they had a stronger flavor I guess...maybe slightly tangy. But both were very good bananas and very flavorful. Pineapples were amaaaaaaazing!!! so so soooo good! Did not make my tongue itch at all...and pineapple nearly always makes my tongue itch. The last fruit...dorian fruit....was the most disgusting fruit I have ever had the displeasure of eating. First off the smell was absolutely rancid! It smelled like rotting, decomping, garbage filled with really old baby diapers...it was nasty! I don't know what compelled the sri lankans to even try eating something that smelled so awful even before cutting into the peel. I mean my motto is smells like trash not going into my mouth. Anyways...cutting into the peel to get the fruit lets out an even stronger even more horrible smell. I don't know why I ate it...probably because our tour guide swore that it smells horrible but tastes very good and sweet. Let me tell you...it did not taste good! It has a thin plasticy layer that gives it a slight bite...once you pop through that the inside is a creamy, custardy, cheesy texture. Taste-wise, first bite you think hmm okay...then as it sits in your mouth and you feel the texture of the first kind of crunchy bit mixed with the creamy weird texture of the inside fruit...its just plain nasty. My husband said it tasted like onion to him...I could kind of see how he would think that...but I can even find words to describe just how disgusting this fruit tasted. Everything about it was horrible...taste, smell, texture...EVERYTHING! And my tour guide bought a whole bag to take home too...so it sat in the car with us for a day. And our noses could not get used to the smell which led my husband to believe that the fruit is constantly giving off smell because otherwise our noses would have adjusted and we wouldn't even realize the fruit was in the car. And once the fruit was removed from the car there was still an after smell. It was probably the worst thing I have ever put into my mouth...right up there with ear wax...and I know everyone has tasted ear wax when they were little (it was an accident okay!)
As for foods I did like and eat nearly everyday I was there... string hoppers, coconut sambal, king coconut juice, dhal curry, and beef curry. YUUUUUUUM! My breakfast was string hoppers and coconut sambal nearly every day, sooo yummy! I need to learn how to make them!
But yes that is the end of our trip...and now I'm back in depressing Riyadh and hit full force with the depressing feelings, resentment, and anger at being a woman in Saudi Arabia.
(I decided to break up this post into three parts since it looked like a college essay when I posted it all together)
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