Staying at the Hotel Elephant Park. A great place by all accounts. Especially being so close to the river and the elephants walk right past the front door about 4 times a day. Man there are some massive bulls!! Jen falls over with emotion at the site of the wee babies playing away by themselves in the river. Jen had her bestest experience ever with one of the wee trackers when she went down into the water and helped wash him or her and then fed it some baby b...

Today we travelled to Pinnawala. We booked a Taxi, and our chatty, informative driver, 'Sampath' risked his life (and ours) to get us here. Having experienced China's driving and lack of road rules….we felt we were 'hardened' to the perils of crossing roads and travelling in taxis. We were wrong. Sri Lanka is on another scale altogether. When driving, do not stick to one side of the road, do pass on bends, do not give way to anything unless it is MUCH bigger th...