15 January - Colombo Sri Lanka

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We arrived this morning… quite the big city with a really busy port.


 

We are docked next to a container ship and watching the off-loading of shipping containers is almost ballet like… this is the view from the breakfast terrace


So the shipping containers are moved off the ship… and then loaded onto these flat bed trucks 1 or 2 at a time..  then each of the trucks goes to a location… it is an organizational dream!  I’ve highlighted the truck movements :)
Had a lovely sightseeing drive and dinner with my German friends… first up.. the Lotus tower… if you look really closely… you will see the crescent moon… YES I am obsessed.


And the sun setting 

Lovely dinner at one of the Paradise Road Restaurants and of course we visited the Red Bar first.  

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