Day 2. On way to Anuradhapura xx

Day 2. On way to Anuradhapura for the night, well what can I say...what a birthday!
Started the day with a huge breakfast and then the hotel surprised me by bringing out a birthday cake to happy birthday song.
Then my guide bought me flowers..honestly yay.
Then we went to munneswaram Hindu Temple, 2,500 years old and so beautiful as they all are.
And a day of first things because today I had my first ever fresh king coconut and then scooped out the flesh..delicious!!!
So then my guide said do u wanna do a safari I was like hell yeah I'm down for that , what an awesome couple of hours that was.
I saw eagles and peacocks and other birds I can't remember the names of. Saw a big bull elephant but he was well hidden altho I could see the flapping of ears and the swish of his trunk. We saw mongoose, and water buffalo.
The most wonderful thing was we were gonna be leaving and the driver of the jeep suddenly took off like a bat out of hell and I just thought ooh how exciting is this..he's ending by crashing..no more birthdays for me ha.
Noooo he had word of a leopard I almost started crying and we hadn't seen the bloody thing!
So we pulled up to a hundred other jeeps and could see it veryyyyy far away that it looked like the beast of Bodmin..not a leopard...but suddenly some deer decided to come out and the leopard before I could do anything with my camera caught one after a tussle and dragged it into the bush. Epic!!!!!!
This evening I've just had a cocktail and a lager and a buffet meal with my guide and again....a birthday cake comes out and everyone sang happy birthday and shook my hand.
So all in all I've had a wonderful 21st 😉.

Thankyou to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday, what a day to be alive xxxRead more