A full day of elephants plants and people.
They immediately tried to go to the other side.
Sunrise on our big day. The early bird catches the elephants … feeding.
Porch from our new place. Great lookout to the North.
Sri Lanka Bridal Gown
Rains last night produced a torrent of water in this river.
Bible Rock with Monkeys
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Big Buddha on the road
Mosque temple nearby.
Pinnawalla.
Early morning feeding with Viena.
We were there with Dignataries
big creatures. Even bigger up close.
So big. So tame.
Going to be a hat day. Hot already.
We had a good breakfast as well. PAcked our Picnic.
for $2 bucks you can feed the baby elephants.
The River. Ezra and the Elephant. The Tusker.
Beautiful place to spend the morning. The Elephants just came walking downthe street and into the water.
Ezra and the elephants.
He was clean moments ago.
A rush to go to the other side.
Walking back through all the shops
Viena with our fresh made hummus for lunch.
pinnawalla Elephant tickets $1 if you are Sri Lankan
Lots of little Buddhas
World Peace Pagoda
MArkets along side the rock
A busy Kandy Street.
Stripe? What Center Stripe?
Ezra is always being followed.
Trees planted by differnt VIPs of the world .. Did not find the American Johhny Appleseed Tree
Seeing SRi Lankan families together relaxing was the best part of this park
Bats. Yes BAts. Hundreds. Thousands of BAts. Did not see Batman.
Big tree.
The famous picture spot. The best I could do.
wait this one is better.
Not sure if they should be climbing .. but a crazy tree.
Suspension bridge over brown river. Half way.
Does anyone know the password. We had to turn around halfway.
Big Bamboo.
A walk in the park.
Sri lankan Children taking advantage of the space to run.
Tamil Photoshoot in traditional dress.
Ezra and the turtle.
Ezra and the monitor lizard.
Monkeys enjoying the flowers.
Love GRass.
Love this girl.
A full day.
Big Buddha on the road
Are they bats? Are they frogs? Are they the unknown animals of Sri Lanka making those sounds at night. We have already confirmed that Kandy supports a large large bat population. We must have seen over 1000 very large very sleepy bats today in the daylight. They were all hanging high from the trees – looking like hanging fruit. And as the day turned to late-afternoon, the bats started to move a little more and make a little more noise. They would gently relocate from branch to branch. Just one of the many strange and wonderful sights we saw today in Sri Lanka. Today was a big day because we visited both the Pinnawalla Elephant Orphanage and the Perideniya Botanical Gardens. We paid the foreigner fee for both the Orphanage and the gardens plus the driver fee ($35). An expensive day, but worth it. The elephants were amazing as always to see. We were able to see them on land and the river walking free. They all looked so happy in the river. Big, Little baby momma. They would take a bath in the river and then make it to the shore on the other side and then start throwing sand on themselves again. The Perideniya botanical gardens was worth it not for the botanicalness but for the culturalness. This is the first place where we could observe Sri Lankan relaxed and enjoying themselves in what is really a city park. 50 cent admission for sri lankans. $10 each for us. Worth it.
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