Here we are in sunny Sri Lanka, we arrived late 16/11/16 to a thunder storm and it's rained every day, they told us the monsoon is late,locals are pleased because they need the rain but we're not that chuffed. Thurs morn we made our way to an elephant orphanage and watched them bathe in the river (see photo) Ga fell in love with them all. Then walked up to the feeding station to see bottle feeding the youngsters (35 litres of milk a day). Fri went to a huge ruined Buddhist site Polonnaruwa which once housed 5000 priests, monks and students, there is an open air Buddhist shrine with four large statues of Lord Buddha carved out of the rock face. Fri went to a spectacular pillar of rock visible from miles around Sigiriya is a hardened magma plug of an extinct volcano, we climbed 1020 steps passing beautiful frescoes to the top, the 1.6 hectares was originally covered with buildings, only the remains of the Royal Citadel can be seen today. Afternoon had a jeep safari and saw 100s of elephants, some babies only a few days old Ga wanted to take them home, but the adult males can be dangerous and we had to drive off quickly a couple of times, we see more later in the week so will bore you with even more pic's. John & Gail