Hi there,

Well I thought I'd put some information about Sri Lanka, as it took my fancy and I thought you might be interested in it. It's only the first,,,otherwise I might go on for hours.

While I was in Sri Lanka I visited an elephant orphanage, which, as the name suggests, looks after elephant orphans. It was perhaps a bit of a tourist trap but who can resist something like this?

It's on the way to Kandy, whish is a city in the hill country and the train or bus there takes you through really lush vegetation. Before I went to Sri Lanka, I only thought of it like this but in reality this is only a part of it. There is the tea country, the hill country, the ancient cities and the south where it's flat and you can go on safari. Obviously there's the north, but I didn't go there as a tourist because of the trouble. However, we did work with some schools up there and some teachers got the chance to go there. Anyway, here's a nice picture of the stilt fishermen at night on the beach just down from Unawatuna (where the last picture is).