After being kindly woken up by birds having their early morning chat in rhythm with each other’s tweet at 7am we had plenty of time to nosey around before being fed to the brim at breakfast with fruit, toast, eggs and coconut Sri Lankan pancakes. We needed to get up and go to try and beat the weather forecast, apparently we are due rain at 11am so hiking feet on up to the nine arches bridge, hiking maybe not so much mountaineering more so trying to climb down...

Had the worst night sleep last night, it was the full moon national holiday and the owner had music pumping until about 5am, my bed was the other side of the wall to the common area so I could hear every word of the songs and their awful singing, I had to put my headphones in and listen to my music to try and put me to sleep. We were plodding on today because there were a fair few trains going to Ella so we didn’t rush to get up - not that we could because we...

4.30am wake up call on my birthday.... I wasn’t feeling it but there was a big group of people going so more agro if I didn’t get up and go. It was freezing, dark, damp and foggy. I thought the minibus ride was only a 30 minute job.... nope! A 1 hour 30 minute job with a pounding headache, no water and a aching tummy. Awesome birthday so far! We got to the national park gate, a steep 3500 ruppees to get into the park. I was very apprehensive about it all b...

Sweaty s***ty night sleep, trying to push my way over on to Ellie’s side of the end again! Got woken up by bangs on the roof, which we later discovered were monkeys fighting on the roof. The little sods! Didn’t get bitten too badly last night so I suppose that’s a little positive? Breakfast a little later this morning because we had changed our route to Nuwara Eliya as there was no point in doing Adam’s peak because it’s the worst time of the year to ...

Crap sleep last night again, not as bad as I thought but we were both dripping with sweat all night in the sweat box, couldn’t wait to get up and have a shower! We had an early morning start for home made breakfast at 7.30am. We had the Sri Lankan famous dish - egg hoppers (a thing crepe made into the shape of a bowl with a fried egg inside. Very strange but tasty! And a Sri Lanka crepe each rolled with shredded coconut and bee honey inside it. The crepe looked...