Fig and Gecko

Name: Fig and Gecko
Address: 327/7 Nurewewa Watta, Mihintale Road, Anuradhapura Town, 50000, LK
Telephone: +94252052411
Price range: $
Rating: 4.7

We're your window on Sri Lanka. We'll take you off the tourist trail, give you great advice, and you We organise live music, and incredible tours, and homestays.
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We are a hostel established in a unique colonial property in Anuradhapura our HQ and accommodtaion for our Give A Fig Volunteering - a UK non-profit - volunteers, which we open to you, travelers, tourists and passersby. We work in education, development, income growing, and conservation, and your stay here will be a relaxing and enjoyable experience - we serve good western and local food - have mo

nkeys and hornbills in our wooded garden, and we can introduce you to Sri Lanka off the tourist path. We can take you to villages to collect rushes and weave baskets, cook Sri Lankan food, turn pots with a potters family, cycle through beautiful countryside, and maybe see crocodiles, and elephants. We want you to be here, and we want you to stay, and so we give you good western hostel standards at the price you expect Sri Lankan prices to be. And of course, you will be supporting all our non-profit work!

10/08/2023

I love cauliflower... mmmm

17/06/2023

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23/04/2023

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From https://twitter.com/musiciswin & https://twitter.com/turmanator1089

07/01/2023

we have all sorts of fungi (inaects, birds, and wildlife) here in our garden in Sri Lanka, but i have yet to see them as varied as this (except in one vegetarian restaurant in Hong Kong)

03/12/2022

We all love a holiday... and lights!

25/10/2022

The sunsets 5 minutes walk away away are beautiful, but this one was a partial eclipse, a real treat. .

24/10/2022

Any room for my legs, boys?

20/10/2022

Join us for our unique table-top BBQ experience, popular with our volunteers, hostel guests, and locals. Find out more at https://www.figandgecko.com/things-to-do-at-night-anuradhapura-bbq

18/10/2022

We need this for our table top BBQs!

18/10/2022

A BBQ at night led to a night time encounter with a civet. Usually only seen at dawn and dusk, these elusive nocturnal weasel like synathropo e creatures move around at night looking for food. They are famed for living in attics here in Sri Lanka, and as we'r don't have attics, they just pass through. Enjoy the wildlife, and a BBQ with us https://www.figandgecko.com/things-to-do-at-night-anuradhapura-bbq

18/10/2022

a BBQ at night led to a night time encounter with a civet. Usually only seen at dawn and dusk, these elusive nocturnal weasel like synathropic creatures move around at night looking for food. They are famed for living in attics here in Sri Lanka, and as we'r don't have attics, they just pass through. Enjoy the wildlife, and a BBQ with us https://www.figandgecko.com/things-to-do-at-night-anuradhapura-bbq

13/10/2022

one day we have very few guests due to the ongoing economic problems making flights expensive, the next day, loads fly in!
I do love bees, although usually, I'm helping to remove them from other properties. Photos of that to follow

02/10/2022

Homemade turkish bread, with homemade hummus, and homegrown greens.
Join us for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or our table top (DIY) BBQ
international, and Sri Lankan food

Address

327/7 Nurewewa Watta, Mihintale Road
Anuradhapura Town
50000

Telephone

+94252052411

Website

http://www.figandgecko.com/

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Put your headphones in and enjoy the sounds of the paddy fields at night. Nowhere else we've been sounds like this. The birds that fly at night calling the owls in their trees, the beautiful fireflies, but most of all the sounds of the frogs after the rains., Whether you stay at our hostel as a guest or a volunteer you can join us on free guided walks. At night, standing in the darkness you'll also be able to marvel at the night sky. We suree you'll agree that the world is worth preserving for all its creatures.

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The Fig and Gecko, so much more than an excellent hostel, is our overseas volunteers’ accommodation, the HQ of our non-profit, NGO, and a training centre for low income youths and those leaving children’s home who are supported by your stay here to gain a vocational education. Whether you stay here, or simply visit us, you will be warmly welcomed. Your stay, as well as each of your purchases supports our freely given community, educational, development, and cultural work in the community. Your participation in our first class tours, music nights, cookery classes, and experiences supports sustainable employment, and local income growing. Learn local arts and rural crafts, and help to keep the culture alive. You can stay in rural villages too, and meet the real Sri Lanka. Whatever your reason for joining us, we thank you for your support