Tag: Hill Club

From Nuwara Eliya To Hambantota Via Yala Safari Park, Sri Lanka, 23 March 1995

Nuwara Eliya Colonial Post Office
What Nuwara Eliya really looks like

Left Hill club early to drive (via Nuwara Eliya) through beautiful hill country, to Ella Pass Rest House…

Ella Pass vista
Ella Falls

and on to Tissamaharama for lunch and onto jeeps for safari round Yala National Park – very interesting – saw water buffalo and elephant at close quarters, crocodiles, ibis etc. We even saw a bear (very rare – only 20) but not a leopard (rare – only 25).

Yala scene
Spot the peacock

Got back to Tissamaharama dusty and late – went straight on to Hambantota – Peacock Beach Hotel – washed thoroughly and ate (good meal with limbo dancers!). Early night.

Part Two of our two-part photo album for this Sri Lanka trip can be viewed through the flickr link below – there are 75 photos therein:

01 Tea pickers in hill country, near Nuwara Eliya SRI_J4 (18)

Real gluttons for photo punishment can see raw scans of all 430 photos we took unedited and unlabelled here:

SRI_J4 (10)

From Kandy To Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, 22 March 1995

Children at play on wy to elephant orphanage

Left for elephant orphanage early morning. Quite enjoyable.

Jo feeding a baby elephant
Bathing elephants
Elephants got quite excited at the thought of their bath – that’s not the elephant’s tail protruding

Back for lunch and then leave Kandy for higher hills – beautiful scenery – stopped at tea Plantation/tea factory on the way .

Near Kandy as we start to ascend
Con plays with the tea
While real tea workers pack the tea

Arrived at Nuwara Eliya Hill Club for colonial atmosphere – jacket and tie dinner, snooker afterwards, latish night.

Looks a bit like the Manchester Tennis And Racquets Club inside
Looks a bit like Noddyland outside
Snookered

Hot water bottle and soft bed – slept badly.

Part One of our two-part photo album for this Sri Lanka trip can be viewed through the flickr link below – there are 69 photos therein, ending as we leave Kandy:

01 17 March 1995 - Ornate Hindu Temple, ColomboSRI_I1 (16)

Part Two of our two-part photo album for this Sri Lanka trip can be viewed through the flickr link below – there are 75 photos therein:

01 Tea pickers in hill country, near Nuwara Eliya SRI_J4 (18)

Real gluttons for photo punishment can see raw scans of all 430 photos we took unedited and unlabelled here:

SRI_J4 (10)