Kandy View Hotel

... le rideau a l'heure des offrandes... La visite m'a ete commentee par un homme parlant tres bien anglais, un artiste qui reproduit toutes les fresques se situant dans ce temple...<br>Sur le chemin du retour nous sommes arretes dans un champ de the, puis dans une usine de the. Une tres jolie jeune fille m'a fait visiter, ben en fait c'est pas tres different du tabac, on utilise a peu pres les memes process. Puis degustation d'un tres bon the ma foi, visite et degust gratuite. Ai ...

... river for bathing. I counted over 70 elephants, altho&#8217; only a few got down to lie in the water and be scrubbed. Most stood and a few roamed about, whereas in Chitwan NP in Nepal, all the elephants filled their trunks when they got in the water and immediately started to spray themselves with water! They did perform a lot of very loving gestures within their groups, wrapping their trunks around each other&#8217;s heads and one large bull elephant tended to ...

... for the early morning hike. I don't have many photos of the way up because it was so dark but it was a good work out. (elevation gain of 1850 meters) When I got to the top there were scores of people all positioned to catch a glimpse of the suns first rays. As the sun started to crest the horizon, the priests came out of the temple and beat a drum and chanted to ...

Hello everybody! My last entry was from Bangkok in Thailand and I since then I have been in a few other countries, so it's time again for a new entry. From Bangkok - as I mentioned before in my last entry - Peony flew back to Guangzhou in China. After a few days with a friend in Guangzhou she took another flight to Sanya. Here she found work immediately (arranged while we were travelling). She is helping young western (rich) kids doing activities like hiking, surfing, snorkelling ...

... safe distance, we were only a few steps away from the animals so if one had decided to lose his cool and charge, it would have been curtains. I was nervous. Tom was in his element. Back in the field we were introduced to a gigantic blind elephant whose name I forget and at 60 years, was the oldest beast in the Orphanage. He was splendid, with beautiful long tusks and a docile manner. There were a dozen or so huge male ele's chained up to ...

... were both - but also very wet. A pot of tea at Devon Food Court saved us from drowning. The rain started just as we were finishing and lashed down for around three hours; we even had to wait an hour before braving the hundred yard dash to the pub! What the literature doesn't mention is that Kandy has pubs - yes, after five months we found not one but at least four. The Queens has changed little since it was built a hundred and fifty years ago and the swankiest act in town ...

... small, but the country of SriLanka proved that to us as we were travelling. We stayed one night at the same hotel a French couple and their father were at.. this couple had spent the Christmas before with Manjula, when he was their guide around the country. They had a great reunion, and I had a great time watching them parlez vous en Francaise. Manjula continued to impress me throughout our journey with his continual good humour and mannerly way.

... we really can't commit anymore than that. What a joke, moreso that at any other time it would have cost more than $10. We got the hell out of there before a guard figured out we hadn't of paid. What was funny though was that several people made the comment that we 'had got in for free' - this was followed by an all knowing smile. Obviously the locals weren't dumb as to why this tourists were up at 6.00am. &nbsp ; The bloody Indian Visa Escapade ...

... hot all the Mahouts took the elephants into the river for an extra long soak and splash around before they (the elephants not the Mahouts) went to bed around 5pm After last night I am thinking an early night might be in order as tomorrow we have an elephant blessing ceremony at 8.21 in the morning (another auspicious time) and I need to be up well in advance to help clean Rani before the Monk arrives Goodnight and hope you are all well Sam