13 I say Ceylon, you say Sri Lanka.. Lets just go to Galle!

This is our third visit to Colombo and each time we have docked at a different pier. 

We managed to snag the first shuttle out to the port gates, and this time it was not that far.

Preparing ourselves for the onslaught of Tuk Tuk drivers as we walked through to gates, you could imagine our surprise to find no one was in sight.

Suddenly, with the realisation that we had arrived, a tsunami of drivers came charging around the corner towards us. We were only interested in the one that was booked to take us to Galle for the day.

Having survived the first challenge of getting past all the touters, the second was facing the traffic of Colombo. We are not sure if we were taken along the back streets on purpose or maybe there are no direct routes, but it took quite a while before it even looked like that we were on the outskirts of the city.