Dambulla, Sri Lanka
We got up early to an overcast day. It had obviously rained overnight.
A somewhat strange breakfast - a cold fried egg, what must have been banana juice, a big pot of loose leaf tea and 15 pieces of toast with about a quarter of a pound of butter and a big dollop of some sort of marmalade. Initial price quoted by the Mistress of the Guest House: 2,000 rupees (very roughly, about $18,00). At our looks of amazement she immediately dropped the price to 400 rupees -...