Subject: Post: <p>Yesterday was mostly spent at the hotel, as Iryna was working on one urgent project and we were just lazy in general. In the afternoon we went to explore the nearby city of Galle in quest to find a computer mouse for her. The mouse was found and the afternoon and evening were well spent exploring the surprisingly beautiful old city of Galle.</p><p>Once again the frequent power cuts caused some extra trouble, as we arrived to Galle very hungry but no restaurant was working due to lack of electricity. In some hours the electricity was restored however and we could finally get our long awaited shrimp pizzas. :)</p><p>Galle is a popular tourist city, and as such has very well established tuktuk mafia controlling all the best places in the city, demanding abnormally high prices from tourists for even short distance rides. The tuktuk drivers are also extremely pushy in offering their services and it might well take ten more or less kind "No thanks" phrases for them to understand that their services are not needed right now. We didn't really feel like playing their game, so we searched for and found (after long search) the local bus back home to Unawatuna. The local buses are fun, all decorated with neon lights and loud music playing. </p><p>The poor ticket selling boy of that bus received some unnecessary roughing from me and was looking a bit confused and scared for the entire trip. I accidentally mistook him to one of those pushy tuktuk guys and responded to questions accordingly when he probably just tried to sell us the bus ticket. "Sir where you go?" "No thanks" "But.. where.." "NO I SAID". "But.." "NO" "okay...". Well, we managed to pay the ticket to the driver and I had to say very kind "Sorry and thank you" to the still confused looking boy when exiting the bus. :) </p><p>Today morning we went diving with a local dive company. Not much to say about those two dives, it's basically the end of diving season here on the south coast and the visibility was horrible in addition to very strong waves and currents. Was fun still, but much we didn't see.</p><p>In the afternoon we visited an sea turtle sanctuary and hatchery in the neighboring village, just walked the beach a bit and had dinner. At the sanctuary they collect turtle eggs to save them from poachers and release the baby turtles to the sea when they have hatched. Also they work as an hospital for injured turtles.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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