Day 32 -Eat, Travel, Sleep Woke and finished off all our food for breakfast before Nihal came to pick is up and take us to the bus station In Kandy. Our first proper travelling journey with no help from Nihal, so with our big bigs on our back we were left to fend for ourselves! We didn't have to wait long for a bus to dambilla and luckily we all got a seat, it was About 2.5 hours, we had a window so it was quite breezy. In dambulla we changed to a bus to sigirya,...

Day 31 - The Jungle Book Spent the morning with Nihal again this morning, we first had breakfast with Beckie for the last time, said our goodbyes then headed off to millennium elephant orphanage with Nihal, he had brought us some corn on the cobs that his wife had cooked for us, random but nice! We arrived at the elephant orphanage and I had a very quick whistle stop your around the educational boards about the elephants then were allowed to ride them. I was a ...

Day 30 - Suba aluth arrudack wewa New Year's Day!! We were awoken with a big bang, Sri Lankans appear to set off lots of fire crackers at all times of the day to celebrate new year particularly at 7.30am! We all had a big breakfast together, then we all got ready for a jungle walk in the nearby jungle however we walked through the deserted town where nothing was open due to new year and got to the jungle entrance which was also closed! So wandered back luckily f...

Day 29 - Soursop, Mangostiene and Nelli Lovely night sleep again followed by a leisurely breakfast that we did ourselves, we had toast and marmite, watermelons and porridge! Home comforts! Nihal kindly offered to give up a few hours of his holiday today to show us around the local markets in Kandy which was very kind of him, he came to our guesthouse around 10am and then we walked into town with him, into the markets. It was packed again in town, there were clo...

Day 28 - aaaand relax... Ouch! Woke with all our calves aching so much, used muscles that aren't usually used climbing Adams peak it seems! We had a very leisurely morning allowing ourselves to sleep in, Rachel and I woke around 7.30am anyway though and went to sit on the balcony to wait for the others to wake. The guesthouse overlooks a jungle with monkeys swinging through the trees! We asked for a pot of tea but had to come inside to drink it as pesky monkeys ...