Sri Lanka Day 1 and 2 Colombo-Bentota

I've heard about how beautiful Sri Lanka is and I got the chance to visit when hubby's cousin decided to have a destination wedding at a bungalow in Bentota, last December.

Hubby had to complete some work so I accompanied his parents a day before he left. We took Malindo Air for the 3.5 hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Colombo. We had meals and in-flight entertainment which was good.

When we arrived at the airport, his mum and my check-in luggage hadn't arrived. Mind you, all our wedding accessories and outfits were in there and we had nothing to wear except what we had on. The wedding was to be held on the 3rd day that we were there. I was glad we had decided to arrive two days earlier.

Family friends saw us waiting for updates from the unhelpful airport personnel and waited with us for more than an hour. There was no one there who could tell us what we were to do. We were asked to go from one person to the next and back to the first counter that we went to and finally asked to fill a form. They also took my MIL's luggage key so that they could check it when they found it.

We then got an Airport van to take us to Bentota where were to put up two nights at Centara Ceysands. 

We were hungry as it was about noon and we found a nice restaurant selling delicious Indian fare such as vade and thosais on the way to Bentota, 1.5 hours ride away.

 Here's my FIL and Uncle S, our family friend checking out the sweet coconuts.

A hospital in Colombo

Traffic in Colombo

Just birds hanging out

The lobby where across Centara Ceysands Resort where we waited to take a boat to cross the river

My FIL and MIL 

Enjoying our cool welcome drink

The view from Centara Ceysands

The view of the sea behind our resort

Calls to the airport about our luggage went unanswered so it looks like MIL & I will be wearing the same outfit tomorrow!

The restaurant where we had our dinner

There's not much activity around Ceysands and you had to take a toot toot to get into Bentota town so we decided to spend the first night hanging around the hotel.

We had breakfast at the hotel restaurant- Cafe Bem which served both local and international cuisine

Apam, Spring Hoppers, Thosai and Biscuits with cheese while staring out at the river

A 45 minute river cruise after breakfast

Passing resorts which were rebuilt after the tsunami in 2004. Homes were swept away and some left empty

Fisherman at sea

Can we fit under there??

Domino's Pizza in Bentota town

Lunch at Kandoori

We had rice and a lot of other yummy stuff but only took a picture of this

We checked out of Centara Ceysands and moved to Club Villa where the wedding was to be held.

Lobby 

The bathroom is huuuuge. This photo doesn't do it justice. The bath amenities are made in Sri Lanka and smells heavenly

It's a gorgeous villa with a main building leading to smaller villas and the pool and huge garden with a train track running across the back. You heard right! The trains cross the backyard!

The Welcome Dinner was held at Centara so after checking in at the Villa, getting no positive response from the airport and a short rest, we took a van back to the Centara boat dock.

During dinner, I received a call from someone delivering our luggage. He had arrived at Centara where we were!!! What a relief after wearing stale clothings for 2 whole days!

Hubby will be arriving from the airport tonight and reaching at about 2am in the morning.