For my second weekend a group of us arranged a jam-packed weekend to go and see a tea plantation, do hike called Worlds End, and go on a safari in Yala National Park. We did quite a lot within this weekend so it will be spread over a few different blog posts!
We left early-ish (not early at all compared to the previous Saturday when we left at the crack of dawn for the elephant safari at Uda Walawe!) on Friday morning to head to Ella, a town in the mountains. For trips like this one where we would be travelling to various different places not easily accessable by public transport the PMGY co-ordinators suggest that volunteers hire a private taxi and driver. In Sri Lanka it is reasonably cheap to do so, so we had a mini-van and driver hired for the entire weekend. There were nine of us going; Simon, Dan, Georgina, Claire, Jenn, Hollie, Kirsten, Hana and myself. All seen in the photo, apart from the other Claire who had nipped to the loo!
On the way to Ella and the tea plantation we stopped to stretch our legs and admire a waterfall. By this point we were reasonably high up in the mountains and the view was spectacular. There were also a handful of monkey on the trees nearby!
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| Monkey! |
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| The view from the bridge at the waterfall |
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