Day 7: Anuradhapura

After a wrest-less nights sleep thanks to the wildlife rustling all around us, we headed for yet another Sri Lankan breakfast (Dahl, coconut samba and egg hoppers) 😅. Following this, there was a rush to the toilet for myself in which I proceeded to 💩 on a frog - this was only noticed when I flushed the toilet and saw him swirling around the basin! He wasn’t put off by this event however as he crawled up the drain and joined us again for our showers later that day! 🐸

We headed back into the city and had our first experience of the Sri Lankan bus service to get there! This came complete with chickens in boxes, mounds of vegetables and jumping off the bus whilst it was still moving! We wondered around the shops and attempted to find Sam a ‘decent’ coffee which sadly wasn’t successful. I however was successful in buying a new notepad and pen 🖊️ stationary shopping is the best kind of shopping! After a pretty relaxed morning we headed back on the bus to the farm - we followed which bus the monks got on as there was a monastery near us…it worked and we made it back!

Later that day we were taken by our host to Mihintale, another temple on top of a hill with beautiful views. We were racing the sunlight with this one as it gets dark at 6:30pm here all year round. Thankfully though we did get to see the views before it went dark and it all looked pretty spectacular lit up at night. We also saw our first snake of the trip! A dangerous one apparently 🐍

Back at the farm we waded though the mass of frogs that were covering the paths. We had bought some food from the supermarket earlier in the day for dinner as we were all Sri Lankaned out - cheese triangles, an avocado, crisps and some mango! A chilled evening in ready for another night with the wildlife!Read more