Kurunegala, Galle And Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka
It was the Sinhala and Tamil New Year last week. This is the biggest festival of the year in Sri Lanka, in a similar way Christmas is in the UK. And similar to Christmas, there is a lot of shopping for presents, eating and borrowing money to fund it all. One of the other volunteers landlady works in a bank and said she approved over 250 loans in one day. This years New Year, which was on Tuesday 14th April was a particularly big affair as it coincided with Good F...