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hey guys, sorry its been so delayed... this is the first place i have been able to get fast enough internet to suppotrt this blog site!! so ive just posted what i wanted to say on my first day!!
il give the quick low down of activities now.
stayed in negombo for nearly a week, then we got a driver after meeting morgan. i managed to get him down to a very reasonable price for a 10 day tour around the island in his toyota 5 seater. a slight change to our usual transport means, trains which stopped half way along the line, leavoing us stranded in chilaw! and taking a hellish bus back taking 4 hours for 40km!! we still love the conventional tuk-tuk though!!
our tour has taken us around the most morthern regious we can go to with the current situatuions in sri lanka, and then down to do the cultural triangle visiting the temples and ancient sri lankan kings ruins. absolutly facinating.
a few days ago we rode an elephant through a lake and stopped to swim! it was magic. we also climbed 1200 steps to the top of sigiriya, a huge rock in the middle of no where as seen in the picuture here! we watched the sun set up there too which was amazing!! i dont have time to mention everytjhing, but today we have got to our new town.
we are in kandy now, its beautiful, mountainous windey roads and cooler climate! our driver fixed us up with a real treat today, a top notch hotel instead of a guesthouse and it has views across the town, right up in the mountains, you can see for tens of miles!! has a swimming pool too! saw the spice farm today and visited a place with 5 caves which were temples thousdands of years ago, in dumbulla. had to climb 600 stairs to get to them, but well worth it to see huge reclining buddahas and every bit of the interior walls covered in hand paintings! at the spice garden they gave us a complimentary massage and tour of their plants followed by testing and sampling of all there body products, including hugo getting his leg hair removed using a totally natural product- an alternative to shaving or waxing! hilarious.
at the end we got taken into the shop, where we are pressed to spend money, i bought just the cocoa powder and banana oil which we got to try. basically lovely hot chocolate with no sugar!! for about 2 pounds for a big bag and botrtle. morgan spent about 100 pounds!! buying hair removal cream face cream spices etc etc money well spent for a lady!! hugo stuck to just some tea like me oh and we got some teeth whitening stuff too!!!!
tomorow we are off to the kandy town. to see wood calving factory and a sri lankan dance with walking on coal etc. gtg now, bye!!!!
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