Regent Lodge Kandy
172 Riverdale Road Kandy, Sri Lanka
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Sugarfree Kandy
... a hill to look for a slightly wider spot in the road. The manager, Dilip, told me that he goes through a clutch a month and many brake pads each year when trying to climb and descend this hill several times a day. I took a one-kilometer hike down the hill once to get some supplies and then back up, but that was to a small supermarket along the highway. A slog to town would have taken a 2.5 kilometer hike.
We arrived from Colombo with the understanding that we would ...
Orphaned elephants, toy shops and Buddhist Temples
... attractive and civilised. There are actually pavements that you can push a pram down, and cars stop at zebra crossings. We took the children to choose a new toy each in the town centre, and were wowed by the nature of the shops and restaurants: a shiny mall housed an Apple Shop, smart shoe shops, and a supermarket more akin to those in Europe than certainly those we saw in India. So, we stocked up on luxuries like marmite, yoghurts ...
Golden Temple at Dambulla and Kandy
... began. Unfortunately I become a little wishy-washy at this point and should have said that I wasn’t interested in a Sapphire Ring so we sat through an half hour of the guy trying his hardest to make us by something. Sapphires were picked up in tweezers and shone to the light to see how wonderful they were and rings were thrust in our hands. It made me think how easy it would be to steal something here as I was sure they were not keeping track of all ...
Kandy
... evening we walked all around the lake and then into the town centre, stumbling across a KFC which we just couldn’t bring ourselves to walk past. I hate eating western food especially fast food when I’m away travelling but I was just so sick of the same old rice and curry and wanted something fried and greasy!
The next day we decided to visit the tea museum so battered down a tuk-tuk man from an extortionate 800 rupees to a more ...
Kandy
... actually. He seemed to be enjoying getting pampered though! Next the mahout told us both to climb on, he gave us both a punty up (he was about 70 and dead skinny!) and we struggled on, both straddling Mahudge's spine - this was going to hurt! The mahout gave Mahudge his instructions and, being an obedient elephant, he raised his trunk and blew water all over us! This happened about 5 times! Adam was absolutely drenched as he was at the front but it was only Jen's hair that ...



