{"id":16049,"date":"2017-02-17T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=16049"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:28:13","slug":"biking-from-kirinda-to-hambantota-via-yala-on-lifeday-25407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=16049","title":{"rendered":"Biking from Kirinda to Hambantota via Yala on Lifeday 25,407"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-2017-02-018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16052\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-2017-02-018-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Elephant of the day\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elephant of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lazy start to the day leaving Wild Tusker Resort just before 8am after having my two fried egg sandwiches and mango juice for breakfast. I came away feeling robbed, I&#8217;m sure I paid for my dinner when paying the owner last night. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I decided to bike to the gates at Yala National Park knowing I would return the same way. It was a pleasant ride thinking myself lucky not to be in one of the viewing 4WD vehicles bombing along. I had a chat with the gatekeepers and felt sure I could have hopped on one of the vehicles entering the park, but couldn&#8217;t be bothered so pedalled back and getting rewarded with a good photo of an elephant, it seemed to notice me so I quietly pedalled away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16053\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-2017-02-17-10.07.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16053\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-2017-02-17-10.07.10-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-2017-02-17-10.07.10-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-2017-02-17-10.07.10.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddha of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After Kirinda town I disappeared down meandering country lanes on unbelievably quiet roads, I don&#8217;t think I saw any vehicles except for a couple of motorbikes \ud83d\ude42 No sea views though until I came into the busy town of Hambantota after having another big pot of curd this time with some disgusting honey substitute \ud83d\ude41 but it was cheap.<\/p>\n<p>I spent time looking around the town and found another Dialog shop so I went in to find out why my SIM still wasn&#8217;t working. Turns out yesterdays payment went onto a different number \ud83d\ude41 and of cause that was just unlucky since I didn&#8217;t have a receipt \ud83d\ude41 Good job the amount was only \u00a32 or so. So today I splashed out \u00a35 to get 8GB day data plus 7GB night data and of course I made her give me a receipt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16051\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3-2017-02-17-12.54.04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16051\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3-2017-02-17-12.54.04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3-2017-02-17-12.54.04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3-2017-02-17-12.54.04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3-2017-02-17-12.54.04.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smart junior school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the time I got turned away from entering the docks and finding my way onto the road past all the houses about to be demolished (tp close to the water I think), \u00a0I decided to call it a day and so I&#8217;m now at The Samren Hotel. Which is relatively cheap and cheerful.<\/p>\n<p>Todays 48 mile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/869361003\">Strava is here<\/a>\u00a0and todays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/7mq4ut5cgy2l6v9\/AACJpvo5cNj12I8Go7vthYvea\">pics are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lazy start to the day leaving Wild Tusker Resort just before 8am after having my two fried egg sandwiches and mango juice for breakfast. I came away feeling robbed, I&#8217;m sure I paid for my dinner when paying the owner last night. \ud83d\ude41 I decided to bike to the gates at Yala National Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-personal","category-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}