Majestic Tourist Hotel Kandy

We started the day nice and early by heading down to the Millennium Elephant Park

We were driven down by a tuk tuk driver who was to become a good friend, Mr Sunil.

We had a quick break on our way back down the hill and were offered a king coconut each by Mr Sunil, these things are bloody massive!

We had a pretty good time at the millennium elephant park, and managed to get a ride on Lakshmi, but on his back rather than one of the big boxes that they carry ...

... producing very different flavours and strengths), along with ornamental elephants and china.

I made my way back to the TSTR with my previous day’s ticket (another 500 rupees, not part of the Cultural Triangle ticket!), to visit their museum. I wasn’t disappointed. Located on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the Buddhist temple Aluth Maligawa, it contains many articles and books about the tooth’s turbulent history and many, many valuable articles ...

... exhausted and trying to decide whether to go and watch the traditional Kandy dance tonight or whether we will fall asleep after such a busy day! Moving on to Dalhousie tomorrow for some trekking, will write again soon. Thanks everyone for the messages sorry to not have responded individually yet but will do. Love, Nia and Andrew xxx

... The temple itself contained Buddhas which glowed if you used your camera flash. Temple 2 seemed to be further away - it was Hindu inside and I've never seen a design like it. It was like a temple within a temple with some superb brick arches - the temple man showed us around and instead of demanding a tip asked that we donate in the temple donations box. Around the back over the hot rocks was more writing on the rocks and a little building which if ...

... hand and stay up if one understands the secret of the catches, panoramic windows -holes grime and unusable curtains all included and if you have the front, or should I say rear since that's where you are in the train, seats the view is magnificent. As you will have guessed by now, we did indeed have the rear seats which left us with only one slight problem; it was impossible to read the names of the stations and there was no pa system like good old British Rail.

... off, googlies, etc).... england lost, it was hot, the roof crashed down on the group we were in injuring ther beak, rob , and a couple of others.....although the beak and rob kinda injured themselves in escaping. Cue trip to hospital, and vip treatment for the rest of the 5th day....quality...the egg mixing with the prawn sanger brigade...... Oh and england lost, and i rediscovered arrack, the wonderful arrack...... Next......onto unawatuna

Back in Colombo... we were asked by another housemate to do a photoshoot for her company which we all said yes to of course. Its basically promotional material for this electronics company. They want to look all multicultural so there were a few westerners, many Chinese and Sri Lankans too. We got carted off to a 5 star hotel for the shots which came out pretty well! The first shot was in Suits with BMW's and sunglasses etc etc. I cant tell you how hot it is to stand in the sun ...

... and discussing the side effects I had from the first set (rashes and blisters) I was sent off to the injection room again (oh joy) The doctor had been very sympathetic re my blisters but said that as rabies was in his considered opinion more serious that itchy blister and rashes I still needed more injections ( can't argue there really ) . There was a very large queue this time for people waiting for there first set of post rabies injections and it really reinforced that dog ...