THE LAST RAYS

So today marks my final day on the South Coast.

I cannot quite believe that three months is up. It has gone so ridiculously fast, I don't even know where the time has gone.

It only feels like last week that I arrived in Sri Lanka, too hot, a bit homesick and with no idea what the next few months were going to entail.

In the end, it has turned out to be the most incredible few months. 

I have experienced things I could never have dreamed of and met people who have inspired, horrified, angered and amazed me.

Sri Lanka has been nothing that I expected it to be.

But it has been so much more.

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MOUNT LAVINIA

Mount Lavinia is the closest beach to the city of Colombo and so it is where I headed off to last weekend to relax and take a time out from the busy city life.

These photos show the progression of the setting sun, a process which was over in about five minutes.

It was a sheer spectacle and one that I enjoyed from the balcony of the beach bar that you can see in the first photo. 

I realise that many of my posts are of the sunset...

I guess you could say that I am just chasing the sun, every place I visit just transforms it completely giving me an entirely new photo that is nothing like the previous one.

My time here in Sri Lanka is almost up, only a couple of weeks are left which is bizarre when it feels like just last week I was packing to leave.

I can promise that there will be many more sunsets to enjoy between now and then. 

And maybe some other photos too! Maybe...

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THE SKY'S ON FIRE

So some drives home truly are better than any other.

The road trip back to the city from the coast last weekend included this as a backdrop.

A sky like a fiery canvas and an absolute stunner of an evening.

A show that was over in minutes but was even more beautiful in its briefness.

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CITY SANCTUARY

Even in the busiest, nosiest, loudest cities, you can always find a moment of sanctuary.

For me that will always be a setting sun. 

Wherever I am in the world, be in city, beach or hills, Europe, Asia or Australia, sunsets are when I feel most at peace. 

They are always beautiful and no two are ever the same.

I am constantly amazed by what I see and this one that my tuk-tuk driver kindly pulled over to let me photograph was no exception.

Colombo, I think I'm starting to rather like you.

The setting sun over Diyawana Lake, Colombo

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