Driving through Sri Lanka

We drove 689 km across Sri Lanka in 6 days with our incredible driver Mada. It was exhausting, these Sri Lankan roads are nothing to joke about. The two lane roads are lined with families stands selling their home grown bananas, vegetables, strawberries, curd, flowers, or whatever else. There are countless number of village dogs walking along the road, or laying in the road. One day, Fran counted 78 dog’s in about 1.5 hours of driving. Also, watch out for wildlife. We saw giant snails, monkeys, lizards, elephants, land monitors, mongoose and peacocks. Then there is the livestock: cows, buffalo, chickens, or goats. You have small trucks or tuk tuks loaded up with produce, or sugar cane, or lots of people. Or they take up a whole lane of the road to dry rice. In the cities, you have the school kids walking home from school in their white uniforms. You have shops and temples along the side of the road. You have people walking, carts, bikes, scooters, tuk tuks, cars, trucks, and buses. Everyone trying to pass everyone else, and no one stop for anybody. Oh, and to intensify this craziness, it is right hand drive. This video is speed up and through a small town, so very little going on. BUT… the scenery was gorgeous! The mountains and trees. The buffalos grazing with the egrets. I loved the rice paddy’s and the tea plantations terraced into the hills. Or in one area, there were vegetable paddy’s terraced into every available space - families trying to make a living.