A few busy stretches along the coast and through Galle but otherwise quiet roads. It was another hot/humid riding day today. The weather forecast said “feels like ~105F”. Not sure it was quite that hot with occasional shade from trees but I did  make three coke stops before lunch.

People continued to be curious – mostly standard “where are you from” and “where are you going” questions. There is a good amount of “hi” and “bye bye” as we pass.

Below was the beach from our hotel.

A little beyond that were signs for stilt fishermen.  As best I can tell, fishing season is May to October (https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1189030-d15074232-Reviews-Stilt_fishermen_Sri_Lanka-Koggala_Galle_District_Southern_Province.html) so there wasn’t any real fishing going on now. I got a picture of the stilts and also saw a sign that for 5000 Rs ($16) someone would climb up on the stilts to pose for photos.

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These folks were busy hauling in nets from the sea. In the rest of the day we passed several fish sellers.

Galle was a large and busy city. There is a historic fort here but I bypassed to get through the city before it got warmer. Soon enough we were on roads that looked more like below.

A coke stop

More of our quiet roads

Victory memorial

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Mosque

Lunch stop near where they harvested cinnamon. After removing the outer bark from the cinnamon tree, the cinnamon comes from the inner bark.

Hooray, nice to get through a warm ride and to a cool hotel with air conditioning. Tomorrow we finish our tour with a ride to a little ways south of Colombo