Reply To: Trip Report: Sri Lanka Feb-24

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Thanks for this trip report @Metty, it brings back memories of tea plantations and Ella, most of them fond (but not my last night in Colombo when the LTTE staged their final attack, and I found myself right in the middle of it).

For anyone who is planning a trip to Sri Lanka – if you’re a fan of hiking, I highly recommend climbing Adam’s Peak for dawn (the big one, not Little Adam’s Peak), and Sigiriya is also incredible.

Funny story, the LTTE attack was the start of how I found my way to HFP 5 years later, in a round about kind of way – I went to the airport the next morning, visibly shaken, and on very little sleep. I got chatting to the Qatar staff at check-in, about the previous night’s events, and where we all were when it happened. Almost everyone on the plane out of Colombo had a similar story to tell, but they did manage to get me upgraded to business on the DOH to LHR leg, and I was so impressed with it all (mainly the frequency with which they said “More Bordeaux, Ms Downie?”) I started looking into ways to get upgraded again…