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Kandy
5 NOVEMBER 2012 - After breakfast in our Sampath Hotel we check out and head for Kandy. We leave Nuwara Elliya and we drive through some amazingly stunning hill countryside. Just kilometres and kilometres of beautiful lush green tea plantations amongst lots of little towns, gorgeous colonial houses and other no so colonial shacks. Also amongst it all are big tea factories and throughout the plantations you will see dotted around are the ...
Day 31 - I Like Kandy (a song title)
... the watchful eyes of mothers and fathers. Probably more the mothers !! We perused the orchid house, which had some absolutely stunning orchids and enjoyed watching a family of monkeys antics on a bench seat..... We could have easily spent longer but we headed back to the front gates to meet Guyan for our next stop. I went to the loo on the way, oh dear, my first experience of a squat toilet...... I survived....... Our next stop was the Temple dedicated to the Tooth Relic. It ...
Kandy Perahera
... as everything gets booked up for this ten day event really early. I can't believe leaving the bus station and the streets are all full, on the perahera route you can't even see the pavements anymore as they are filled with people sitting waiting on the event to start in the evening, there are few spaces to be had. So it was a quick check in, bite to eat and away to find a ...
Driving to Kandy
... they were no quieter in the restaurant. I got a pork stir fry with more fat than meat, the boys got satay and peanut sauce with no peanut sauce and Julie got Pad Thai that had no connection to Pad Thai. I mean there is no way that the chef had ever even eaten Pad Thai much less a clue how to cook it. I think he got the recipe from his cousin, who heard it from a partially deaf friend who over heard some guy on the street that had never been to Thailand but ...
Orphaned elephants, toy shops and Buddhist Temples
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... The Temple is still one of only few highly important buddhist temples in the world. Whilst mildly interesting, the temple is not particularly ornate or beautiful, and so Brad and I found ourselves skipping through it quickly then heading back to join the children and Georgie at our lunch stop.
Back to the hotel, and, despite the weather being cold and rainy, the children tried out their new plastic water guns in the pool.
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