Unfortunately we had to cancel last minute our two month trip to Madagascar due to serious security issues exactly where we were planning to volunteer from. We were advised mainly by the French embassy to cancel our arrangements there. We are very disappointed not to be able to support the project we wanted to work on for a while which was to help develop an eco tourism site on the island of Nosy Be. We took the decision 12 hours before our flight was supposed to leave from Nairobi to Antananarivo. We therefore decided to go to Sri Lanka instead. We arrived on 15/08 in Colombo at Dijen's who has a wonderful wife and three kids. We are very lucky to be welcomed so well in Sri Lanka. We will be thinking about our plans here the next two/three days. Our goal is to volunteer 1 month, discover the island, and improve our surfing skills the following. Also, we had our first Indian/Sri Lankan meal tonight...we asked for non spicy dish to avoid upset tummy and our mouths were on fire...let's see tomorrow morning. We will keep you posted ;-) (Am kidding...) By the way to adapt to the culture, I started to grow a typical Indian moustache....but it is not quite working ;-) See below.
