Driving through Sri Lanka was pretty adventurous. Kathie described it so well as part of her trip report in Fodors that I'm just going to borrow some of what she wrote there. I've split the pictures into 3 groups, which I'll describe in more detail just above each slideshow.

The roads were mostly ok, though usually narrow and we had to share the road with buses, trucks, tractor-like vehicles (called land masters), bicycles and motor bikes, ox carts, dogs who like to sleep on the road, people often crossing without looking, and the occasional wandering cow. All vehicles feel compelled to pass the vehicle in front of them. You'll pass a bus that is picking up passengers, and a few minutes later it will roar past you just before a curve. Drivers use their horns to communicate whether it is safe to pass, etc. Everyone cooperates to make this insane system work. Aslam, our driver, asked if people honked their horns in the US. We said they did but it was different. After thinking about it a moment it occurred to me that in the US, people honk because they're impatient or angry, where in Sri Lanka honking is used as a method of communication as stated.

This first set is driving from Nagombo on the first day to Kandalama, where we stayed for 2 days and then to Kandy. It includes the drive to the Kandalama near Dambulla and some driving to and from the hotel.

This second set is driving from Kandy to the Tea Trails.

The last set is driving from the Tea Trails back to Nagombo. I timed it, we drove down the mountain on switchbacks for nearly 2 hours. Fortunately our wonderful driver, Aslam, didn't go like a bat out of hell which meant neither Kathie nor I got sick along the way. As all of the drives, it was very picturesque and we drove through a rubber plantation for about an hour. We also stopped where "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" bridge blow-up scene was filmed in 1957.