Transport..
Galle to Hikkaduwa should have been quite an easy trip we met our friends and decided to get the train this only cost 20 LKR. We waited on the platform! And could see that this was a busy line for travellers and we were unable to get a seat. Chatting on the platform we couldn't hear the announcements as they were unclear.
We had been told the team should only be around 20 mins, but the train stopped at regular intervals so we didn't really pay much attention knowing that we would see the station when it arrived......we were wrong. We were on the carriage in the middle of the train and if you are getting off at Hikkaduwa you needed to be on the front two carriages. (You see now why I mentioned the unclear announcements)
The train stopped for a while and we looked it the window and couldn't see why? There it moved off we looked on google maps. We'd missed the stop, it took another 20 mins to get to the next station where we went to the bus stand and hopped on a bus that went straight to Hikkaduwa. This took about 35 mintues and cost around 20 LKR.
Accomodation
We arrived in Hikkaduwa and were spotted by plenty of people trying to sell us rooms and give us tuk tuk rides to their friends homestay etc. Our friends we were with wanted a hotel on the beach as it was the last place they were staying before flying home to Slovenia. So some of us went for a walk along the beach to scout out the hotels (while some stayed with the bags) , there were some nice ones and some not so nice ones varying prices etc....I have to say that despite the town being empty of tourists and it very obviously being low season, people were not willing to budge on their high price tags and seemed to prefer their rooms go empty than budge on the price at all!!
Anyway, we eventually managed to get a room at a hotel called Buddes Beach bar & guesthouse, on the beach had sunbeds and umbrellas and was very relaxing. They were happy to do a discount due to it being low season and us needing 2 rooms. Again it was basic but fine for what we wanted.
Hikkaduwa was our last stop in Sri Lanka, so we did a lot of relaxing and enjoying the waves, had a few beers at happy hour etc. We had a meal at a restaurant called the curry bowl and it was a fair price for a vegetarian rice and curry. It was quite nice, but as with most rice and curry there is some that are delicious and some that are bland.
On our final night, we needed to visit the train station to find out some info for our train to Colombo to get the bus to the airport. We got a tuk tuk from the hotel (at Hikkaduwa beach) to the train station in Hikkaduwa town, where we found the information from the man at the station (it was around 8pm). We then went into a local Kottu shop for dinner and had Chicken /Veg Kottu, the plate was large and delicious and probably the tastiest Kottu we had in Sri Lanka, but very spicy in comparison to most. We loved it, but our Slovenian friend who doesn't like it too spicy struggled!
Then we went home via a few tourist shops, trying to walk off our dinner. Said a quick goodbye to our new Slovenian friends and got our bags packed for our early departure the next morning to get to Colombo airport in time for our lunchtime flight.
Over and out.
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