Merry Christmas 🎄

After being all templed out by the ancient city of Polonnaruwa we decided that we'd rather spend Christmas Eve with a bunch of elephants. Will remembered that he went to see elephant orphanage in Pinnawela as a child so we had to go and check it out.
In principle it's awesome to see the elephants bath in the river but we do have our doubts about how much of an orphanage it really is as it did have some zoo like features and we were told that the elephants do not get released into the wild after their treatment is completed. 🐘

When we had seen sufficient elephant action we made our way to our accommodation which turned out to be a lovely hideaway in the middle of the "jungle" (well not really a jungle but we were surrounded by coconut palm trees, banana, mango, passion fruit and coffee plants, we even saw a cashew tree!). Our outdoor shower did raise some spider concerns which were soon washed away by some cold beer and cheesy chicken kottu with deliciously spicy curry sauce.

On Christmas morning it was time for us to drive to Negombo, return the Tuktuk and check into our very fancy hotel (Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo). Thank you so much again @Victoria/ mum for the vouchers! We'll spend the next two days relaxing by our lakeside pool before flying out to Vietnam on the morning of the 28th.Read more