Saturday 19th May 2012 - Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Today I decided to check out the 'famous' Casuarina Beach recommended by Suren the day before. This beach was on the island of Karainagar. Again to get to the beach I got the bus after asking the men at Jaffna bus station to point me in the right direction.  The bus once again went through masses of villages with destroyed buildings. The ticket conductor told me where to get off but then I had to walk 2km down a dirt road. The road had beautiful big houses all spread out along the road guarded with fences made from the leaves from coconut trees. There were also thousands of coconut trees. Every now and then a local person would ride passed on their bike and say hello. I eventually saw the horizon in the distance and saw an army checkpoint where all vehicles were being stopped. I just stilled right pass without any problems. The beach was nice although the sand was more like dirt and blew everywhere with the wind.  There were no tourists on the beach, only locals - both men and women but the women in the water were fully dressed - some even in saris. I didn't want to offend anyone so walked really far up the beach before laying out my towel and undressing down to my bikini. I got in the water but it wasnt particularly refreshing as it was warm. Apparently walking far away up the beach is not hint enough that I don't want to be hassled because groups of boys kept constantly coming towards me. Whenever anyone came near I put my towel around me and told them I don't want to talk. Then a guy came up with a group of boys saying he was also a tourist - he was Sri Lankan but now living in Sweden. I was quite rude because I just wanted to be left alone and told him that there was a reason why i came this far up the beach and said if he wanted to talk he could give me his number and we could talk somewhere else - that got rid of him! He came back a bit later asking if I was having fun - I said I was until he came!! Lol! He said he was leaving and that I should call him and we can go out for a drink. I just agreed and said yeh yeh cool.  It was getting a bit late and I still had to get a bus so I started walking towards the bus stop and waited for my bus.