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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)

A Day In Kandy, Sri Lanka, 21 March 1995

Eye Kandy – Botanical Garden

Day in Kandy – Botanical Gardens in the morning – 50-50 place…

Big Javan tree

…followed by gem factory/shop with hard sell and no sales. Then a ghastly souvenir shop place.

View of Kandy from outside town

After pleasant lunch and relaxation by the pool, trip round Kandy market – very interesting and pleasant…

…then on to temple of the tooth for noisy ceremony…

Temple Of the Tooth

… before returning to Hotel Suisse for dinner and early night.

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:

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

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

SRI_J4 (10)

From Sigiriya To Kandy, Sri Lanka, 20 March 1995

Damsels keeping abreast of the fruit plate

Very early start to Sigiriya Rock – climbed all the way to the top – via the Sigiriya damsels (5th century wall paintings) – so high has a splendid ruined castle.

So high, but look at the crumbling old ruins…and product placement opportunity

Returned to Sigiriya [Village Hotel] for swim, packing and lunch (best meal at Sigiriya) before leaving for Kandy.

I wasn’t going to miss that place, despite them saving the best till last food-wise.

On the way we stopped at a wonderful spice garden where all the edible and medicinal herbs were explained to us.

We had massage and tried spice tea at that herb garden
There we saw a wood carving man using his feet as part of the process

We then stopped at a daft batik factory before going on to Kandy.

We were starting to find these commercial breaks quite tiresome, especially when, as the day went on, the scheduled touring was seemingly more like a short break between these daft commercial visits.

Before dinner we went to a performance of Kandyan dance including firewalkers.

Let’s hope he knew what he was doing

Dinner at Hotel Suisse – better than Sigiriya. Early night.

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:

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

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

SRI_J4 (10)