Eng: I have about 800 rupees left after this trip to Sri Lanka. If you want this 800 lkr then I can give you so please leave your email address below this article. Leave when you leave and how long you will travel in Sri Lanka below! so I can give some advices! Hope you enjoy your trip in Asia, especially in Sri Lanka! Thank you for reading!
Kor: 이번에 스리랑카 여행을 하고 800 lkr(스리랑카 루피) 정도 남았습니다. 만약 곧 스리랑카로 여행을 가시거나 필요하신 분이 있으시면 글 아래 댓글에 이메일 주소와 언제 출발하시는지를 남겨주세요. 즐거운 여행이 되었으면 좋겠습니다. 감사합니다!
Can you sense that your country'scalendar is different from that of SriLanka? If you have not noticed the differencebetween the SriLankancalendar and yourcountry's calendar, I hope you willlook at yourcalendar once more and read this article. It'sjust a little different, but it's different from my country'scalendar so I took a picture of it.
To be honest,SriLanka is not a funcountry to travel. Everywhere I go,peoplewho look the same are trying to sell something to foreigners. It was okayonceor twice, but it was unpleasant that SriLankanmerchantswere trying to sellthings in a language I do not understandanywhere and anytime. The biggerproblem is that evenif I say it is okay, they anyway keepdoing it.
Red Tuk Tuk
This is Tuktuk. I had first Tuk Tukridein SriLanka. When you try to catch a Tuk Tuk, you should look its appearance carefully so you can check if it has any broken parts or if its tires are okay. Because as you can see the front tire of the Tuk Tuk, its tires were badly worn as if these are going to be flat tires. There are not as many traffic lights in Sri Lanka as your country, and no seat belts in Tuk Tuk. You've got to be careful all the time.
And Never catch a Tuk Tuk on the road. Call it by Pick Me App. If you catch a Tuk Tuk on the road then a driver costs you three times more than it should be. If you use, however, the app it automatically costs you according to its algorithm.
A lof of fruit. SALIYA FRUITS; All kind of fruits & Vegetables Suppliers. Go try here if you visit Kandy soon :)
A lot of small watermelons. I am wondering if people really buy watermelons often because these are about two hundreds and where I stayed was very small village. Sri Lanka is cheap in fruit and it is really plentiful. To be honest, I don't want to say anything about its taste.
Day 2: Colombo, Sri Lanka to Kandy City Centre (2)
The construction workers were working in front of the market. But what's interesting is that they were working on it without a fence. What I felt in Sri Lanka was that people have good eyesight and they wear a pair of flip flops every day. Korea should be more careful because it is a country where the personal principle is applied. Or maybe I'm the only one who's so sensitive about this.
There are many bags, but they are all fake. And it's dirty because there's a lot of dust on it. Of course because it's on display outside for 24 hours a day. Don't buy fakes. Buying fakes is a crime, and selling fakes is a crime too.
Stepping out of the authentic market and walking a little upward, you will see a shopping mall-like building. Bag, shoes, clothes, hats, chargers, etc. There was a lot of stuff, but there wasn't a price tag at all. You really need to be careful when you visit a store without a price tag. I could see a lot of people from the West. I heard that Westerners like to travel to Asia. Sri Lankan merchants know they have a lot of money and try to cheat.
ManySriLankanmerchantsspokeKorean,butI thought it was morefoolish to buythings at a stupidprice simply because theyknewhow to speakKorean. Frankly, there was no what I wanted to buy specially. I wanted to buy something that represents Sri Lanka at the proper price. But the merchants tried to sell me a T-shirt for $50 = 8,000 lkr, so I just decided not to buy it.
Phone Chager
I keptgoingaround the market to buy a phone charger, but there was nophonecharger and there was a phone 'CHAGER'so I did not buy it. If you looklike a foreigner and not a SriLankan, you need to be careful when look around. Manymerchantswill be talking to you to selljust because you are a foreigner.
Since English is not my mothertongue,theremay be many wrongparts in the article. If you find the wrong point, letmeknow via comment. Thank you. If there is anyone who wants me to write in Korean, please let me know. I am studying English while writing in English. So please understand.
I know I shoud've put this picture in the 'Day 1' post. The meat was delicious, but I thought I wantedmore rice. KoreanAir was not bad.
PickMe App Ride
Don't use Uber but PickMe App! TukTuk is only available at PickMe. Plus, Uber in Sri Lanka is more expensive than PickMe. Have you ever been in a taxi for four hours? I called a PickMe as soon as I arrived at Colombo International Airport and headed to Kandy City. If you look at the fuel efficiency at the dashboard, it says its fuel efficiency is 31.7km/litre. How good car it is?!
I had 7 hours long flight from Seoul to Colombo and arrived at the airport at around 4AM and 2 hours waiting for immigration. I was dang exhausted and I was kind of afraid of being kidnapped or getting robbed because I knew it takes 4 hours from the airport to Kandy City and I am very new to Sri Lanka and I don't understand Sri Lanka language at all (I doubted even where I was heading to). It costed about 5,000 rupees for 4 hours riding from Colombo Airport to Kandy City Centre.
I was afraid that the taxidriverdid not concentrate on driving and watchedTV.
But fortunately, I arrived safely at Kandy City. It took four hours and the price was about 5,000 rupees. When I arrived at KCC, there was something surrounded with big wall. It was an authentic market.
There is a bus, but there is no bus stop sign,and there is no line on the road, so you shouldbe really careful if you drive.There is nocrosswalk or traffic light, so when you cross the road, you should be careful.
It's the inside of the market.There are so many people. If you are not a SriLankan,merchants will tryto sell fruit to you at a ridiculousprice. Soifmerchantssaysomething, it is better to ignorethem. Don't buy anything from them.
Youcanbuyfruits at a store with a pricetag,but avoidmerchantswhodo not have a pricetag and continue to changeprices. There were somany people, so I was worriedabout the hygienecondition.
Look at hisfeet, the fishman and look at the hands of the fishman. I was worried about hygiene because hewas not wearinggloves and shoes so I did not buy anything. I reallydidn'twant to go to the hospital or be hospitalizedbecause of stomachacheduringmytrip.
I didn't buy anything in the market.What you should be careful about is that there are a lot of peoplewhowant to cheatagainstforeigners.Itis best to be careful and ignorestrangerswhentheytalk. The reason I did not buyanything was that the pricechangedevery time I asked the price, and I was worriedabouthygiene.
So I decided to go to the mart and buy a sidedish that I could eat with rice. When you are abroad, you are at risk of fallingimmunity, so it isgood to eatfoods that cantakecare of yourhealthno matter whatyou eat. And at least if you go to the mart and buy something, you are not worried about being fraudulent.
SAMSUNG is everywhere
All the insideadvertisements at the martwere Samsung. I was soproud that I was a Korean.
There was a burgerking at the Sri Lanka Mart,but it was tooexpensive. If the price of foodexceeds850lkr, it can be said to be expensive. So I wanted to eatBurgerKing,but I did not eatit and ateotherthings.Ihonestlycan not rememberwhat I ate.
I will be posting an article about my first trip in 2019 at least one per day. From January, 2019 to February, 2019, I went to six different countries for trip and I took a bunch of pictures while I was traveling around the world! I wanted to share these amazing pictures with subscribers and.. stay tuned!
Samsung ad at immigration line
From Incheon, Seoul, South Korea to Colombo, Sri Lanka, if what I remember is right, it took about 6 hours by flight and its weather was way hotter than South Korea. Sri Lanka in January was much hotter than South Korea in January. I was in the line for immigration and there was an huge Samsung Ad right beside the immigration. I felt so proud of myself who is a Korean!
Samsung is Everywhere!
In Colombo international airport, could see Korea companies' ads easily. Korea was everywhere I went and Sri Lankan really liked me probably because I am from Korea. I've never expected Sri Lanka people to talk to me in Korean but there were quite many Sri Lankan who are into Korea culture and language! I was so surprised by looking at Sri Lanka people speaking Korean!
LG too!
All the Televisions are at the pick-up-luggage point are LG! So so proud of being a Korean. I had an economy class boarding pass and it took me about 90 minutes to pick up my luggage, while in Korea it takes only 30 minutes at the most.
LG is Everywhere!
After picking up my luggage, I was heading to the exit of the airport and there were so many trees wearing LG sash! I couldn't ask for more for the airport! Korea Pride!
p.s.: If there's any typo please let me know and correct me if I made any grammatical errors. Thank you for reading.
