Just one more thing, Sir…..

First impressions as we flew over Sri Lanka & Colombo were that the land is mostly green dotted with really red roofed houses with brown rivers snaking through everywhere, but today appeared to be particularly cloudy and overcast, so not the tropical paradise that I had in my minds eye. Once we landed we were met by our really nice driver who was going to take us to Ranweli (in a thankfully air conditioned car! Not hot, but humid here).

The roads were a bit manic with mental tuk-tuk drivers everywhere driving with abandon

Add that to the fact that there are load of people driving agricultural furrowers as cars makes for a fun ride! The roadsides were jammed with half bit houses / shops etc, but seemed to be fully functioning!

Ranweli though is a nice little holiday village complex that can only be reached by ferry

hand poled by friendly staff. Saw a kingfisher perched high on a wire as we went across, and after signing in were taken to our villa, situated right on the beach

All very nice and quaint. We had a brief look around and met the natives

look close, there’s a chipmunk!

After crashing out for a little while due to time difference and lack of sleep on the airplane, we went for a little walk up the beach which was fun

and shows how storm wracked the beach is today. Hopefully the sun will be out tomorrow, just in time for our tour of the city of Kandy and then on to the Pinnawela elephant orphanage! Can’t wait!