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Day 33 - I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike..
Had an early morning to try and do everything here and move on to the next stop in one day. Sigyria is basically a big rock but a very impressive one, it is otherwise known as 'lion rock'. You have to pay about $30 to enter the actual area around the rock and to climb it, as we are nearing the end of the trip we are on a bit of a budget so decided against that and instead climbed an equally big rock that then gives a good view overlooking sigyria. We rented some bikes at 7am and cycled to the rock to climb, it started off as steps and then became quite a scramble over rocks to reach the top. The view from the top was incredible, it was good we did it early as we were the only people up there, so peaceful overlooking the landscape and sigyria, could see for miles. We even did a spot of yoga at the top lead by Rachel! After lots of photos we started our descent and then had a cycle around for about an hour around the surrounding roads stopping for a break for some watermelon! We then returned had some food and then packed all our bags ready to catch the bus back to dambulla, to change and catch another up to Trincomarlee up in the east coast.
Another very hot and sweaty journey with our massive bags! The bus we got from dambulla was a normal sized bus but it's squeezed no joke about 150 people on, we were squashed on at the end half hanging out the door, the bus went pretty fast so we were all giving our biceps a good workout trying to hold ourselves in! We thought some people would get off...they didn't, we stayed like that for about 2 hours!!
We hadn't booked anywhere in advance for trinco but knew we wanted to stay In the beach resorts little north called uppaveli, so we got a tuk tuk there to a budget option suggested in the lonely planet. It was very budget, the beds were like prison cell beds and the bathroom was pretty disgusting with a resident cockroach in our toilet rim! On the plus side it was right on the beach and there was a bar and restaurant so we had some dinner and then went to bed.. Or tried to get to sleep in the sweltering heat!! Think we will try and relocate tomorrow into a nicer place in the daylight!
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