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Monday, April 11, 2011

Adam's Peak

To Climb Adam's Peak you stay at the base in the village of Delhousie which is not a very nice place. It completely exists because of Adams Peak and is hardly a village at all. Its basically just a string of souvenir stalls. Most of the guesthouses are before you actually get into town. Stayed at Pansisi Guesthouse for 800Rs for a pretty nice room with 2 beds and a hot shower but they'll charge more if
you're more people. Also looked at Green House which is a homestay but
it's overpriced. 700Rs for a very small single room with a shared
bathroom with cold shower and they wouldn't even let me take the room
unless I bought dinner and breakfast from them. All in all they wanted
1600Rs all inclusive which was too much (you can get a good size meal
of rice and curry for 100Rs at one of the shops) and the room was
crummy. Don't even bother looking at Pilgrams Rest. It's 700Rs and it
had the worst rooms I've seen traveling. It looks better from the
outside which REALLY says something.

Leaving Delhousie I took the bus to Hatton (1hr, 55Rs) which was
suppose to leave at 11:30am but left early at 11:20. The bus dropped
off at the Hatton bus station which is a 5 min walk to the train
station. I ate a delicious rice and curry lunch at a locals only
place for 100Rs (walk through a narrow market alley that runs along
the station and it's the last place on the left). Train to Kandy left
at 1:50 and took about 3 hours.

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