Another day another local bus! This time Sarah and I were smart! Seated on the two seater side of the bus meant we didn't have any of the shenanigans from the day before! This 2.5 local bus ride weren't a bit better and we managed to get to the hotel relatively unscathed.. Of course it was still bumpy, but what can you do! Our private intrepid bus once again followed us and again we thought... Why?
Our early departure and arrival at our next hotel meant we were too early to check in. As we had packed up (pretty terrible breakfast boxes) tea and coffee was in order. From the hotel we jumped straight on to our intrepid bus to go to a beautiful cave monastery. The caves held over 170 Buddha statues in three different caves. The ceilings were beautifully painted and it was so nice and peaceful to wonder around. While we were there we managed to get some monsoonal rain.. Which lasted about 45min and was just amazing to watch. It blew in so quickly, pouring buckets and buckets of rain, and then suddenly clearing to blue sunny skies again. You'd have thought it would have taken the humidity away, but just one hour later it was back!
As the monastery was up on a hill, and I'm prone to slipping (Lara you know how terrible I can be!) I was casually escorted down by two lively Sri Lankan ladies who held my arms while we came down the hill. So lovely of them! Rosie (pretty sure that was her English name!) kept reassuring me I'd be fine.. She must have been around 60, and was wearing thongs on her feet! Her daughters friend had my other arm and she was in high school. I must have looked like a frail old Nonna, but I didn't care... I stayed upright! One in our group did nit. Poor Neil,who has had two knee replacements, did not! :(
Our cave trip was followed by a lively bakery lunch (I couldn't stomach rice and curry again) and a walk around town.
About two hours later we made our way to our optional activity of a wildlife safari. While we didn't see a huge range of animals we did see... Oh about 200 elephants!
I kid you not, the wildlife park was full of them and we managed to get about 20 meters away from them.. They were in herds of around 50-60 and were just everywhere! The wildlife reserve wasn't huge, and yet they all looked like they are living really great.. Happy swinging trunks were seen on all of them!
Dinner.. Cheese and tomato sandwich.. Haha!
A x
Our early departure and arrival at our next hotel meant we were too early to check in. As we had packed up (pretty terrible breakfast boxes) tea and coffee was in order. From the hotel we jumped straight on to our intrepid bus to go to a beautiful cave monastery. The caves held over 170 Buddha statues in three different caves. The ceilings were beautifully painted and it was so nice and peaceful to wonder around. While we were there we managed to get some monsoonal rain.. Which lasted about 45min and was just amazing to watch. It blew in so quickly, pouring buckets and buckets of rain, and then suddenly clearing to blue sunny skies again. You'd have thought it would have taken the humidity away, but just one hour later it was back!
As the monastery was up on a hill, and I'm prone to slipping (Lara you know how terrible I can be!) I was casually escorted down by two lively Sri Lankan ladies who held my arms while we came down the hill. So lovely of them! Rosie (pretty sure that was her English name!) kept reassuring me I'd be fine.. She must have been around 60, and was wearing thongs on her feet! Her daughters friend had my other arm and she was in high school. I must have looked like a frail old Nonna, but I didn't care... I stayed upright! One in our group did nit. Poor Neil,who has had two knee replacements, did not! :(
Our cave trip was followed by a lively bakery lunch (I couldn't stomach rice and curry again) and a walk around town.
About two hours later we made our way to our optional activity of a wildlife safari. While we didn't see a huge range of animals we did see... Oh about 200 elephants!
I kid you not, the wildlife park was full of them and we managed to get about 20 meters away from them.. They were in herds of around 50-60 and were just everywhere! The wildlife reserve wasn't huge, and yet they all looked like they are living really great.. Happy swinging trunks were seen on all of them!
Dinner.. Cheese and tomato sandwich.. Haha!
A x
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