This blogpost is about Kandy, the capital of the last Sinhalese kingdom that was able to withstand numerous attempts of colonial powers to conquer it until it was conquered by the British in 1815. We will advice how to spend…
Sigiriya, the Lion Rock Fortress and Pidurangala Rock
Sigiriya Rock or Lion Rock is probably on your list of places to visit as the site is one of the most valuable historical monuments of Sri Lanka and in the top 5 of the most visited places in the country. But unless you’ve got unlimited time and budged to spend in the area you might wonder whether you should climb up Sigiriya Rock or prioritize the less expensive and less crowded Pidurangala Rock instead. The latter offers the above view of the Lion Rock.
How we planned our travel itinerary
Preparing a detailed route gets your mind wrapped around the journey and the excitement level rises. You have to dive into internet blogs, travel books and dig all kind of information to get the route sorted out initially. It turned out that after years of traveling (together Marcell and I have been to 50 countries), planning our route on that scale was a bit more complex and challenging than usual. Besides the longer travel period of 3 months (the longest travel so far was a trip for 2 months Marcell did in South America), now we were 5 people having an opinion and agony of choice started to play tricks.
Easy tips for sustainable travel in 2020
You may live sustainably at home but what about when you travel? What is sustainable travel? Does it mean keeping your carbon footprint light? Or should you also be conscious about giving back to local communities? What is sustainable travel?…
Traveling the world and saving the climate
When we published that we are going to travel half the world we not only got positive feedback on our plans. Some of our friends were concerned about safety or how we manage to school Lily while traveling, some were…
