Local biscuit...!

Moving out....!

Friends waving us off from monuments.

Banana leaf reataurant

Beautiful morning at our Homestay

Another superb home cooked breakfast.

Elephant safari

Fantastic to see over 100 elephants this afternoon grazing on the soft grass beside the lake
Beautiful evening in the paddy fields

Bath time

Simple but very effective.
Everyone is fastidious about personal hygene, and ablutions at sunset seem typical.
Sigiriya Rock

Incredible constructed in 400's with palace on top of bare rock.
Not so easy to climb even today...
Sigiriya

Sigiriya

Sitting in with the locals for tea
Sigiriya

Python rock......
Dambulla

Series of highly decorated temples in cavern under natural rock overhang
Colonial apertif..!

Sri Lanka new Camel species...!

Dambulla rock caves

Buddist rock temples
Walk in rain forest

Amazing walk, had 3 encounters with troops of 20/30 monkeys....kinda intimidating as they swarmed around us and followed for bit......! With males growling! We learned later that they bite ( woman andOkumaya devam et
Colonial apertif...!

Sri Lanka Cultural show

Cultural fire show and walking on coals

Fantastic train among tea plantations

Among tea plantations

Missed the last train....!

Top of Ella rock.
