Sri Lanka is a beautiful place with lots of potential, but its in much rougher shape than I anticipated. Much nicer than India, but it has a long ways to go before the infrastructure is adequate. Weather is great this time of the year, and long walks on the beach are really nice, as long as you can jump over the sewer streams and avoid dipping your feet into the ocean. Its extremely polluted.
I stayed in the Mount Lavinia area, just south of Columbo. I had plans to explore more of the island, but the public transportation is in such poor shape I decided to just stick close to the hotel.
