hi mate
i did a post on sri lanka years back. No the quality was not great. However as i was leaving i was told about one beach hotel at a bay that had the good stuff. Folks were complaining it was to strong.
Also up at 2000m high town in the mountains that i cant remember the name iwas shown a bag of good looking weed but had no time, was trying to cross the country in a day and to be honest wasnt intersted. Had other shit on my mind like where the fuck is my passport. A few days in each town over 1000 meters and im sure you would score.
I believe the good stuff is there. From ella in the east all through the high lands the tea tamils must be growing some nice stuff.
The govt has large plantations in the south for medicinal purposes.
I will be back. its a great place. There isnt a country on earth that hasnt experienced war. I can live with that. We missed a major bombing in the north of the country by a few hours. Killed a lot of folks. After we left the war started up and the masacres began.
Its a great place if you love nature and trecking and curry. Good fishing too.
The lion will always fear the tiger. that was some political graffiti i saw in Kandy. Written in english it stuck with me.
October is a change over season. I mostly went east coast. Ella previously mentioned has the reverse monsoon from most of SE asia. When South Sri Lanka experiences monsoon Ella and the East coast are dry. When The south is dry, Monsoon rages on the other side of the island. Sri Lanka is quite south. In my basic weather theory it shouldnt cop cyclones like India etc does. PLaces i couldnt visit thanks to the civil war such as Trincomalee are supposed to be absolutely fantastic and you may or may not get weather at that time of the year. In Oz the monsoon is never constant. My friend from cairns is staying with us at the moment, escaping the northern heat. The rain has not hit yet, just the heat. You never know in the tropics. Its always warm, rain is around. Will it bucket all day or shower at night. That my friend is a question i cannot answer.
I havn't returned to Sri since the government murdered all the Tamils in the massacre a few years ago, better cleaner and more honest places to go , these days