I had booked with Scuba Diving Weligama to go diving today, but the weather was really stormy when I woke up, so I called to cancel. The dive itself would have been fine, but I didn't like the idea of being in dive boat in the choppy seas. Plus there had been thunder and lightning all night, and forecast to continue through the morning. Heather said the thunder was shaking the ground; I slept right through it.
It was cooler in the morning with the heavy cloud cover, a nice break from the heat. We had breakfast on the porch as usual, and then read our books for a bit.
Around 11am we started to get antsy and decided to get a tuktuk to go into town for a couple hours.
First we went back to Mirissa for lunch. I had chicken roti, Heather tried the kotu, which is roti chopped up with vegetables and other fillings. The rotis were made to order, and really fresh.
Next to the east of our hotel to Matara. It's a transportation hub for the region and there was way more traffic. There's a couple small forts to see, and we just wanted to walk around the town a bit.
The forts were okay, one was really small, the other was under renovations. But we stumbled across the local food market which we really enjoyed.
Walked across the pedestrian bridge to see the temple on a small island, but didn't want to take our shoes off and get our feet dirty, so just looked at it from the outside.
Met up with our tuktuk driver at the temple as planned, and went back to the hotel. Matara was a nice little excursion to while away the day. Jumped in the pool to cool down.
We chatted with the owners while having a sundowner. They offered us a drink on the house so both of us had the daiquiris that Heather liked the other day :)
For dinner we had the fish special. I can't remember the type of fish, except that neither of us had had it before. It was okay. Dessert was a repeat of our first day, and very tasty as usual.
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