Sri Lanka Chronicles 2: Tuk-Tuk to Town

Bentota is located across the river from a slightly bigger town called Aluthgama.  For most of our shopping, we were shuttled across the bridge to the main strip of Aluthgama.  The two lane road was an actual main artery connecting the southwestern towns with the capital city, Colombo. In order to accommodate for such a narrow main road, the drivers have created a middle passing lane used by traffic in both directions. To complicate matters from our perspective, the driving is British style, left hand side of the road. Most passing attempts felt like a game of chicken as we were invariably staring straight at oncoming traffic.

Here is a short video of one tuk-tuk ride into Aluthgama where we saw a gem stone workshop.