Sri Lanka Again

While my parents were with us for the month of February we took a week off and flew to Sri Lanka for a family holiday.

It was just as perfect, relaxing and amazing as our first time. I highly recommend Sri Lanka for anybody looking for a Bali / Thailand type holiday minus all the commercialisation.

It can be a little hairy.... the lack of road infrastructure left my Dad gripping his seat on the 3 hour drive from Colombo to Bentota and some areas can be a little confronting, but this is a country only a few years out of civil war.

I won't bore you with repeat photographs from our last trip to Sri Lanka, you can find them here and here.

This weekend we are off on a camping trip with friends to the vast desert area known as The Empty Quarter. It is our last chance to spend a weekend outdoors before the heat takes over for the next 8 months.

Piper's snake addiction continues, we met this man on the beach and boy did he have surprises to show us!

As well as the python he had this monkey...

But when he opened the lid on this basket and revealed a cobra we bailed!

This elephant strolled along our hotel beach one day, he was part of a traditional wedding ceremony 100m up the beach

These boys were also part of the wedding celebration and kindly posed for me

Hectic streets of Bentota