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Discover Kandy
... the new- light white interiors, polished hardwood floorboards, Jack wood staircase, Dutch style antique furniture and careful injections of colour. The bedrooms are the finest in Kandy, with four-poster beds, soft white linen, concrete-washed bathrooms and Victorian bathtubs. The freshwater infinity pool in the garden provides an irresistible opportunity to unwind and relax under the shade of tropical ...
Traveling instead of blogging
... of a tooth of the Buddha. As we entered, three drummers and a Sinhalese flute player were in full rhythm. Elbowing Western tourists detracted a little from the calm reverence of the temple, but the importance the faithful placed in the site was impressive.
Today, Viru drove us to the government-run Elephant Orphanage in Pennawala, where she called on the chief surgeon, who led us and three former students of Viru on an ...
Arugam Bay, Tissa and Ella
... discovered that they had found a leopard. It was in very thick bush and we only caught of 10 second glimpse of it as it soon disappeared- shying away from the attention it was getting. Leopard man (our driver), unlike cat, has the patience of a saint ...
Kandy – Sweet Tooth Temple
We caught the 9.47am train for the 167km trip from Ella to Kandy. For the first 2 hours we travelled through beautiful wooded hill country then the train hit a tree, or more precisely a large tree had fallen over the track and the train ran over it. One and a half hours later with the help of a chainsaw the tree was cleared and we continued. The train didn't actually go directly to Kandy and we needed to catch a connecting train from a town ...
Kandy
... The icing on the cake - as soon as we stepped into the hotel, we were pounced upon by the staff - "You want some lunch, yes?!"- aaarrggghhh!!
After a respite and a wee lye-down we ventured into the city. The walk there around Kandy Lake was really pleasant although we experienced our most intense stare yet! We were about 50feet away from a bench with 2 young women sitting on it, they kept their eyes fixed firmly on us, looking us up and down over and over again and as ...


