Meet Sri Lanka’s Jo Saunders the Magnificent

‘Come on hurry up! You’re like an old lady,’ Jo barged into my room and remarked. This comment can only come out of the mouth of Jo Saunders directed at someone she has met just a couple of days ago.…
‘Come on hurry up! You’re like an old lady,’ Jo barged into my room and remarked. This comment can only come out of the mouth of Jo Saunders directed at someone she has met just a couple of days ago.…
My Sri Lanka travel expense for the day 4 were the biggest todate. But then again, I visited the most tourist resorts on this day and traveled quite a bit in tuk tuk all over Kandy, leading to the spike.…
Day 3 saw me through the day with just the expense of Rs. 660 which was procured going to the railway station from my homestay in Colombo. I arrived in Kandy where I was graciously hosted by the Theva Residency…
Budget travel in Sri Lanka is no child’s play. In fact it’s the same story in the entire South Asia. Despite all the odds, I’m taking the challenge and trying to prove budget travel can be possible in Sri Lanka…
Sri Lanka private transport is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Believe me, I’ve been here for a week and already it’s putting a hole in my wallet. And it wouldn’t have been so bad if the tourist…
Sri Lanka is expensive without discrimination, says Ishara De Silva, one of the most successful young women of Sri Lanka’s hospitality industry. She came across my article about Sri Lanka being expensive for tourists and contacted me personally to voice…
I’ll be documenting my travel expenses in Sri Lanka on a day-to-day basis so that you get an idea of how much you’re likely to spend yourself. In addition to that, I’ll be putting up a cumulative expense report as…
The Sri Lanka tour did not start off well at all. Even before I had boarded the plane, I lost my boarding pass right at the boarding counter. Can’t get any stupider than that, considering the fact that I’ve travelled…
My Sri Lanka tour plan bombed big time. I was supposed to go there in January with a friend who unfortunately had a bike accident just three days prior to the departure and I had to abort the plan. With…
Sri Lanka barter deal campaign is something I have been planning intermittently for the last five months. The plan is to travel to Sri Lanka for free by having a prestigious organization sponsor my trip. Why Sri Lanka? You may…