Saturday 29th November 2019

Having not been able to climb Adam’s Peak after all, Donald and Ramesh had arranged to pick me up at 09:00 to do a tour of all of the interesting places in the area, but they didn’t appear, which is not unusual for Sri Lanka, so I gave them an hour before I rang Donald! There had been a typical Sri Lankan thing going on, which is far too complicated to explain here, but I am so used to now it is like water off a duck's back to me (try explaining that idiom to people here!). I don't think I was that patient when I came to Sri Lanka, but I have certainly had to learn to be here, otherwise I would have been extremely frustrated on an almost daily basis!

Donald and Ramesh eventually turned up at 11:30 and we then had a much shorter tour than intended (including a brief stop at a beautiful old Anglican chapel), although it was still very enjoyable and finished with a nice lunch in Dickoya. Donald was dropped off somewhere for a martial arts class and Ramesh had to head off to Maskeliya to pick up Jesmin and Leanne. He arranged to return to pick me up at around 06:00 tomorrow morning to take me back to Nuwara Eliya.

Today's photos are some lovely views from the short tour I had with Donald and Ramesh. They call this part of Sri Lanka 'Up-Country' and it is stunningly beautiful. The photographs probably don't do it justice!










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