Sri Lanka - elephants and a nice cup of tea

Last year - in december - I went to Sri Lanka, my first visit to that country. It was warm, sunny and inspirational. I met a lot of wounderful people everywhere and the landscape was so fascinating. From beaches to montains.

   

The food was great and the sea was warm, even if the waves where too high for me.

   There where not many people on the beach outside my hotel in Wadduwa. But every morning the fisherman came with their boats, and there where some dog there too. But mostly just us from the hotel. Like on this photo.

One day I went for a trip to the mountains, the area around Kandy. Beautiful landscape but it is not easy to travel on the narrow roads with sometimes very heavy traffic. It all takes so much longe times than expected.

But it is so worth it all...

Sri Lanka still has a big brittish influence, like cricket and tea. I also wisited a tea plantation. Nice to be up in the mountains, cooler and very beauftiful landscape vise.

Here you can see how they pick the leaves that later will become tea, nice cups of hot tea.

And I was also very lucky to have picked the right hotel. I stayed at the lovely Blue Water Hotel in Wadduwa. A modern hotel designed by Geoffrey Bawa, a local very famous architect.

The hotel had beach access and some very nice swimmingpools.

And the food at the hotel was just amazing. And since I had an "all inclusive" deal I ate so much I gained some weight. But just the desserts where worth it all. I still dream about their chocolate mousse...

Here you can see some example of what we had for lunch one day, in the pic you see just the desserts.