Sri Lanka Cycle Tour 2020

Описание: A short film about a 3 week bicycle tour around Sri Lanka between February and March 2020 totalling 1763km.

If you'd like to read more about the trip, then check out Mark's excellent write-up of the journey complete with fantastic photos here:
https://hayama3tri.wordpress.com/2020...

We started on the west coast in Negombo, headed north to Jaffna, down the east coast to Trincomalee, then on to Kandy in the hilly central region via Sigiriya. From Kandy we dropped down to Kirinda on the south coast passing through the Ruhuna National Park, then back to Negombo via Galle.
We took camping gear but always managed to find guest houses or hotels to stay in for all of the nights (though on one day we had to ride 160km to get to it...).
Mark rode an aluminium Koga Miyata World Traveller (700C), John was on a steel Surly Troll (26") converted to drop bars.
We set off on the trip just before the covid situation got serious, and got home (Mark to Japan, John to Europe) just as things were getting a lot more serious.
Sri Lanka is a fantastic country to visit with a great variety of scenery, geography, cultural attractions and wildlife, and is also great for cycle touring. People (including myself before I went there) have visions of it being very busy, and many towns and some main roads are, but there are plenty of quiet roads which are perfect for cycling on.
On top of all that, the people are amazingly friendly, cheerful and kind.

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