Sri Lanka's hidden Pearl
A great idea and a great sign and business-type front!
This place now is sadly neglected and not maintained
Maybe it’s a CEGA/ABTA PVC Recycling project?
Above is just ONE example how a very good idea has gone wrong at Arugam Bay.
CEGA established a Herbal Garden in the back of AbTa’s new, unmanned office building.
This demonstration plot was useful, well thought of and very well established.
But: So was the idea of Tourist Guides, Trash removals, etc…..
However, perhaps unknown to the kind donors of Bergamo, Italy it appears that the wrong local partners were selected:
For many months now, this project has been neglected and the garden is a wasteland.
Nobody watered the plants, nobody seems to be interested in keeping this good projedct going.
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Do not expect to come from any civilized Country and establish ANYTHING in Sri Lanka and then walk away from it!
Like the Tourist Guide project, the rubbish removal system & donated tractor and dozens more:
Nothing will ever work unless a system is left in place to continue the operation.
Sad but true!
What to do?
(As one says in Ceylon)
written by Anil Wickramasighe, Colombo
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The new so-described- “High Tech” USAid bridge has officially been opened by Mr. President today, 1st July, 2008.
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Official Photos above.
Behind the scene snapshots submitted by Arugam Bay Surfer & Tourists:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf/AbaYBridgeUnder
Security was VERY tight. Throughout the preceding week.
Some estimate the security personnel employed in nearby PottuVille and at AbaY to be around 4,000 men.
Teams specially drafted in from far afield as Badulla, Tangalle and even Chillaw…
There was no noticeable Press presence.
However, Tourists noted plenty of hardware such as Navy patrol boats, divers, amphibious vehicles instead.
A huge marquee had been erected; see photo gallery.
Here are some shots taken and posted here, by foreign visitors:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf/AbaYBridgeUnder
There are some reports that one of the helicopters, an American “Bell 412EP” had been fired at.
Q.:
Is there a connection with “Lanka Bell”?
And the huge new telecon tower at AbaY?
Did the chopper just fly into this new ‘Lanka-LandMark’ and lost it’s fuel or what really did happen at Prevacid 30 mg price AbaY?
Has anyone got further information/confirmation/observation?
Arugam Bay at it’s Best: June 2008 Surf photos
Surf conditions are perfect right now!
Where are all of you surfer dudes?
The Bay also is ultra- peaceful – so don’t worry – take a trip to AbaY and you will be an instant hero!
(Can You name any other Country, at war, which you can travel to- without any realistic danger to you, personally?)
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All is quiet, calm, peaceful, blue and pretty in the remote little Price of lariam Bay of Arugam.
Also:
Swell is UP!
See you on the beach this coming weekend?
Happy Tamil & Sinhalese NEW YEAR!
There is no more “Tiger” on the East Coast!
Purchase zestoretic cost “Tiger” is OUT!!??!! On strict Presidential Orders!
South Eastern Pacific Breweries NowA? have serious problems:
Their other two “Baron“s have also been “Anchored.
Worse still: All the the old, loyal & local “Kings” have been dismissed!
Rumor has it that a local version of “High-Necken “ will soon be on our island.
Btw: Nl – DK: What is the int. beer dominance score now?
Nederland – v- Denmark?
Has Holland got the upper hand since the Daemonic Cartoons appeared?
One more Tower – One more Land Mark!
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Between #61 Fishing Net and #62 Palmgrove Holiday Inn a new, large project is being constructed at present. Where can i buy levothroid
Just South of our “City Centre”, landside, USAID and their sub contractors are well under way to build a new Water Tower and supply system.
This project seems swift and professional in its approach – we’ll keep you posted of its progress.
Arugam.info has received VERY pretty photos from our Brazil friends.
Sorry, dudes, Sri Lanka is not Rio and we cannot publish your explicit photos of your great Carnival on this web site ;-(((
However, we can do better and even more nude than you!
Here is an impression of our new, young, female surfing generation; at Carnival time:
Cost of pletal Photos taken at Beach Hut, Mambos, PottuVille Point and the Siam View.
We wish you lots of fun over there at the Rio Samba Dome!
But, again:
We might do even better:
On Monday, 4th February we will also have a Parade or two – it’s our Nation’s 60th Independence Day (from the UK) after all.
Any bets? Who will have more fun or see more real action this year?
Ps.: What’s the swell like in Brazil these days?
Thank you! Surfer dudes from Is there a generic substitute for abilify Where to buy biaxin antibiotic Brazil who have sent us pretty photos from the Rio Carnival!
Sadly, we cannot publish your kind of shots of beautiful women here……:-((
However, we also have the odd explicit photo opportunity; even more nude than yours!!
Here is one impression of our future, female and very local Surfer generation:
Have a wonderful parade in the Samba Dome! We wish we could be there with you!
(Ps.: What is the swell like in Brazil right now?)
No matter! Again! We can do better!
We also may have a parade or two on Monday next – it’s Sri Lanka’s 60th Independence day. Will it also be fun? Some of us here in S.L. wonder….
The well published ‘Environmental Impact Study’ by USAID Buy motrin platinum muscle and body totally ignored the fact that Hundreds of Thousands of these damaging bags would be introduced into the water as sand bags by defense contractors CH2MHILL.
The cheap bags were used in construction of the new bridge, as shown above.
Hessian or coconut (degradable) bags were suggested by our Arugam.info representative at the time, but the request was totally ignored.
Following recent floods, many bags were dislodged and some have been found washed up on the beaches as far away as Crocodile rock.
Fishing people fear that the unraveled bag strands could be mistaken to glass type worms and swallowed by fish or prawns. This would cause a further environmental disaster.
It is certain that Thousands of bags will never be recovered!
They will pollute the area for many years to come.
Also, one wonders, if such environmental damaging practices would have been allowed to take place in the USA.
Dislodged bags hastily covered up, as shown above.
Photos Copy right: www.sri-lanka-board.de
None of arugam.info‘s letters to SLT on this subject have ever been answered by super ‘efficient’ Sri Lanka Tele-CON.
Since June, 2007 we dispute about 70,000Rs./!
(This is because we had to give up our broadband connection and Community Internet Centre in April, 2007. Since then we are reduced to ancient, slow and as we only found out now: Ultra expensive modem operations. A step back into last Century’s technology: Back to AbaY in 1999 to be precise)
In our personal experience, the natural flood event 3 years ago was nothing compared with the man made disaster which has unfolded since.
Still, the ‘great’ organizations are content with their ‘impressive’ achievements.
Take a look at two examples, published this week.
You can even get it for FREE. They stress. Who the hell would want this silly map, which shows no details at all and doesn’t even mention the hardest hit area Arugam Bay remains their own little secret.
A far better map was produced by the British, 60 years ago and this one is actually useful – but it does cost 75Rs./ at the Ordinance Dept. in Colombo. For this huge amount you actually receive an updated, modern version showing every telegraph pole.
How blissful must it be, to be ignorant!
On one side the gullible donors are impressed with glowing and highly inflated claims of achievements.
On the victims side, where nobody has Internet access (Why?? We often wonder??), no one has an idea what is claimed abroad to have been done. In the remote little Bay.
Arugam.info, and also myself are (un-)lucky enough to be able to see and compare both sides.
And as they never seem to match we have seen it as our duty to report – directly from the Field. For three, terrible, long years we did just that.. If we don’t draw attention to this huge fraud, who else is to do so? It got us nowhere. On the contrary, we harmed ourselves and we would have done better to grovel and give in to their financial super power. Earning a few of the morsels they tend to drop to the greedy and their sympathizer’s.
So, who made all the difference?
Answer:
The small, simple, private people.
Exactly the kind of group, the BIG organizations wanted to keep out. Their advice was NOT to take matters into one’s own hand and leave the Tsunami help in their ‘experienced’ and ‘trusted’ hands.
Lucky for the Bay some did not listen and purchased a ticket and came to see, help and do what they could.
If it were not for great guys such as:
None of them ever had a vehicle fit for a Minister. Indeed, most relied on Public transport. Surprise, surprise: They all still managed to do a great deal more locally and all over the so-called ‘troubled’ East Coast than any Land Cruiser crew ever did or will do.
Without references to or demands for (non-existing-)danger money.
And all without a weird blue light on top. Or flag behind.
If these highly motivated, educated, critical and informed individuals would have been supported just a little more with some official funds (wasted daily) they are the ones who would really have changed lives to the better.
Instead, the large organizations regarded them as a threat, obstructed and even boycotted many. Most left, sad and demoralized, because they simply could not compete with (empty) promises, flash cars and elaborate lifestyles of the Great ones, which did impress and corrupt the local natives.
Most in the big organizations seem to regard their tasks as just another job. And although they may have started with great intentions they were soon grounded by their own bureaucracy. Only few had the back bone to resign in disgust. Such as Matthias from Koeln and Max Seelhofer, the Swiss Red Cross S.L country chief.
WE salute them all.
And we wish to thank our loyal, critical supporters herewith.
Without all of you great guys I am sure that some of the neck ties dropped of by the Red Cross 3 years ago would have found more than one non-intended use by now.
The US donated toilet rolls, which filled the entire “Hang Loose” Hotel at the time when we had no toilets, however, became useful after all, proving us totally wrong. A good motion.
Let us hope and pray that the next 3 years will not see are repeat performance of this mismanagement and waste of resources!
Below is just one Example.
This what we often see, locally.
Nothing at all has been done, apart from an erected sign!
Or even two…..
However, at least one organization had the neck to claim that they ‘completed’ a “Sanitary Project” in Arugam Bay. At huge expense. The trusting donors were content.
But, would they still be happy with their good deed? If they had been given the facts?
If they could have compared this grand “Project” with the REALITY, as below?
Example!
Maybe some of you can understand, why We are NOT happy with what we were forced to observe during the past Three, Terrible Years!
Happy New Year 2008!
The grand Arugam Bay Order zenegra photo Competition price of 2007 remains unclaimed!
Even a regular visitor to the Bay, having won 2 weeks Free B&B for two in an a/c suite, did not visit the Bay this year. It has never been as quiet as this before!
Order lisinopril hydrochlorothiazide AbHa has decided to extent the offer to redeem for one further year, hoping to welcome brilliant photographer Mr. Philip sometime in 2008.
How about a capture contest?
Below are a few amateur shots, all taken around the same location.
During the past 3 years.
AbHa, trying hard to attract tourists thinks the few photos sum up the “progress” of the past three years rather well, without many words. And show the conflict of interests in the Bay these days.
The winner of the most apt, funny or fitting capture will win a chance to run up and down Arugam Bay beach (just 2km) and try to match the amount of vessels with the slogans painted upon them.
At our expense.
Simply click “Comments” and let us hear your suggestion.
December 2004; a Natural Event
April, 2005. A fine balance is still in place
2005: Is this what tourists come to the Bay for?
YOUR Suggestions Please!
Don’t worry! This is nothing political, military or New!
The first part of this story relates to the greatest attraction the East Coast has to offer, to any diver.
Just North of Generic diovan hct availability Arugam Bay Is there a generic for lamictal the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes lies in fairly shallow waters. Sunk by Japanese Aircraft at the end of WW2. The carrier was on its way from Trincomalle harbour to Male, Maldives.
A full dive report has already been published on this site; use the search function if you are interested in details.
The Hermes was once a fine ship.
Very much like some good Hotels and Restaurants on the East Coast once were.
Whatever sealed the fate of HMS Hermes 65 years ago has a certain resemblance to the slow death of the entire Hotel industry. Their boats started to sink when a big wave hit them, in 2004. Plenty of help was promised, from all sides – but nothing substantial ever came along to rescue them.
A combination of civil unrest in other parts of the Nation, incompetence by visiting NGO’s and a total lack of finances have resulted in closure of most establishments which managed to stay afloat.
One leading hotelier describes the situation as such:
Ever since 2004 we feel like sitting in a boat, full of holes.
We kept ourselves busy plugging them by whatever means we have – but scooping out the water to stay afloat has been a hard job, left on our own devices.
….to be continued
