After a breakfast of 10 different Sri Lankan foods we found a small shop to hire scooters for the day. That gave us the freedom to explore much more of the Jaffna region than we did the previous day by walking.
We left the city to look for somewhere to relax and swim and found a beach resort hotel on an island connected by a bridge. Unfortunately it was never ending shallow water so we couldn't swim there.
Somewhere that we definitely would be able to swim was Keerimalai Pond, an ancient and holy water spring next to the sea.
The legend goes that there were two people in India, one cursed with a mongoose face and one with a horse face. They crossed the water to bathe in this spring that was known by Hindus to have miraculous healing properties and their faces then changed into humans.
There were quite a few visitors to the pond but they were all coming just to look at it. We were the only ones to actually go for a swim. I enjoyed it a lot more than the pool in my Jaffna hotel.
On the way back to Jaffna city we stopped off to eat some delicious local mangoes and chat with the local Keerimalai people. Apparently the type of mango we tried were called Vlad. I've never seen them before. They were small and extremely sweet. I'll definitely be looking for them again during my travels in Sri Lanka.
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