Elephant
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Nearly at our Hotel and an elephant was walking along the side the road. This area is also known for its National Park.
Police
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Our driver was pulled over by police again this time for crossing double lines. However he managed to talk his way out of a fine.
Sigiriya Lake
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We stopped by the Lake for a photo shoot🤣, it was very windy but the view was pretty.
Avukana Buddha
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This Buddha is located Giritale Wewa Lake on our way back to our Hotel.
Lunch
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We had a lovely Sri Lankan lunch today at Alimankada Restaurant.
Tivanka Image House
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This was our final site of the ruins. The building has ancient frescoes depicting Buddha in his past lives.
Temples and Stupas
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When you visit the temples you must remove your shoes. We did this, however, John had socks on his feet which is allowed but on the other hand I had bare feet and I burnt the soles of my feet as theBaca lagi
Royal Palace
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The Royal Palace is said to have been 7 stories high with 1000 chambers.
Polonnaruwa
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Today we are driving 3 hours to visit Polonnaruwa Ancient site.
This former Royal Capital is nearly 1000 years old. We visited a large archaeological park packed with 100's of ancient structures -Baca lagi
Leaving Today
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This morning we had a visitor from a squirrel just before check out and a reasonable breakfast.
Dinner
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The food here is not the best. A cold very oily vegetable tempura, onion soup which tasted sort of ok but cold. 1 overcooked chicken drumstick covered in bottled BBQ sauce. Some weird looking vegtableBaca lagi
Lots of Animals
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We had a great time today, our driver and guide both excellent during our 11 hour safari.
Leopod Found
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Finally found a leopod, we can now tick this one as been seen.
Lunch Stop
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Sorry no photos, it was chicken curry which I could not really eat, John ate it though. Our lunch spot was quite pretty.
Monkey Stop
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Time for a mini break.
Breakfast
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We stopped for breakfast and soon after stopping a leopod was spotted somewhere in the park and our driver took off racing looking for it but it was not to be seen.
Searching for Leopard
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Still no leopards although 1 was spotted early morning. No elephants or sloth bears either. Lots of birds, a jackel, snake, lizard and crocodiles.
The Entrance
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Africa has the big 5. Sri Lanka has top 7 Asian Elephant, Leopard, Crocodile, Sloth Bear, Black Necked Stork, Leather Back Turtle and Blue Whale. The turtle and whale will be a no for today as theyBaca lagi
Leopard Spotted Not Really
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Arrived at the National Park to peak hour traffic but we did spot our first leopard 🤣. Fingers crossed we actually see a real one.
Wilpattu National Park
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Up at 4.45 am for our full day of Safari.
Wilpattu National Park is the largest park in Sri Lanka and spans 1317km.
Big Game at night
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After our safari it was time for drinks around the camp fire where we chatted with a Scottish family who currently live in London.
It was then time for dinner, again food quite basic but edible. TheBaca lagi
Safari
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Well this was our usual "been there and did not see this" safari. Four hours of bumpy dirt track passing lots of Jeeps but no elephants, sloth bears or leopolds hardly any animals at all. FingersBaca lagi
Around the Camp Site
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Our Tent
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Our room is very basic as well.
Wilipattu Big Game
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We will be residing here for 2 nights, glamping.
Quite basic at Reception but this is all about the animals we hope to see.