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Posted by Michelle 3 hours ago Putting aside debates on planes and trains, we decided to do an old school road trip, leaving Colombo behind and heading off to drive around the North and East of Sri Lanka… The catch? We were doing it as a family of four (including a toddler and baby). Spanning 10 days in April, the trip was planned to have a mix of time on the beach and the road. We braved the heat during the day, eating out and exploring as often as possible, but nights were spent in family-friendly destinations with generators (and A/C), and an epic amount of ice cream. The result was a trip that was full of music, monkeys and giant water monitors, buffaloes, beaches, flamingos, the occasional toddler meltdown, history, snakes, elephants and watching the children be (literally and happily) pulled into families wherever we went. It was brilliant.
Colombo - Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura definitely warrants attention in its own right as a destination to explore (this area, along with Polonnuruwa featured in Disney’s Monkey Kingdom, a family movie favourite). However, for the purpose of this trip, the city cameoed only as a stopover to break the drive. Leaving Colombo in the late afternoon, we reached the ancient city in about 4 hours. We took the road towards Puttalam, letting us travel for quite a bit of the trip along the waterfront. The route has plenty of gas stations (if you need a bathroom break) and then veers inland through a treat of roadside snack stops for steamy, sweet corn on the cob, king coconuts and fruit.
read more: https://www.yamu.lk/blog/roadtripping-north-sri-lanka
Colombo - Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura definitely warrants attention in its own right as a destination to explore (this area, along with Polonnuruwa featured in Disney’s Monkey Kingdom, a family movie favourite). However, for the purpose of this trip, the city cameoed only as a stopover to break the drive. Leaving Colombo in the late afternoon, we reached the ancient city in about 4 hours. We took the road towards Puttalam, letting us travel for quite a bit of the trip along the waterfront. The route has plenty of gas stations (if you need a bathroom break) and then veers inland through a treat of roadside snack stops for steamy, sweet corn on the cob, king coconuts and fruit.
read more: https://www.yamu.lk/blog/roadtripping-north-sri-lanka