Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Day 9

Once again we had a long day of driving with just a few short stops. Our itinerary had said that we could visit a yogurt factory, but they don’t allow visitors because of flies. If too many people go into the yogurt factory, it let’s in too many flies. (Un)fortunately fly on the bottom yogurt has never taken off like fruit on the bottom yogurt.

So we stopped at a roadside stand instead to try curds and treacle. Sri Lankan curds are not like fried Wisconsin cheese curds or even Little Miss Muffet’s curds and whey. It’s basically a sour plain yogurt made from buffalo milk that they make in flat clay pots and apparently doesn’t need refrigeration for up to a week. In order to take away the plain yogurt taste, you top it with coconut treacle. It’s a syrup made from coconut that has twice the fructose of high fructose corn syrup. Hence, the reason why it is so delicious. Of course, most of our group was too chicken to try this local delight, but thetwinsontour jumped right in! We love to try local food so long as it’s not spicy, fish, seafood, rodent, still has eyeballs, wierd cuts of chicken bones, rare meat, ugly, or otherwise unacceptable.

We also made a super quick photo op stop of local stilt fishermen. Sri Lanka is the only place in the world where they fish like this. They dig a hole and put a big pole in the ground. Then they climb the pole and fish. I’m probably missing something in the description, but that’s ok. These fishermen do not make a living from fishing anymore. They make a living from posing for tourist photos. We gladly contributed to their current livelihood.

We also went to our last UNESCO world heritage site, the old Dutch fort in the city of Galle. We didn’t do much, just walked down a couple of streets and went to the old Dutch church there. It was too hot to do anything else. Even though we didn’t do much, I was glad to get back on the air conditioned bus.

That’s all I got for day 9.

Love,
thetwinsontour