{"id":1253,"date":"2017-01-17T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2017-01-17T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:06:39","slug":"day-61-fly-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Day 61 Fly to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We flew with Malaysian airlines from Kuala Lumpa to Columbo in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>First thing we had to do is get some local currency. \u00a0There are plenty of exchanges available and they all have the same rates so no competition between them. \u00a0Just join the shortest que.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel sent a car to meet us at the airport. \u00a0It is quite comforting to come our of the airport and see a man holding up a large piece of card with your name written on it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long journey from the airport to Colombo town, around an hour. Also in Colombo they have a one way system through the city so you go a long way round to get to where you want to be.<\/p>\n<p>We reached Ivy Lane Backpackers Hostel, via a very pink front door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We flew with Malaysian airlines from Kuala Lumpa to Columbo in Sri Lanka. First thing we had to do is[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,125,124],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylortrip.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}