Day Nine - A day of beaches

Today is day of beaches, Dan decided to go and watch the sunrise at beach 1. Before saying goodbye to our amazing host family, then off we went for a couple of hours in Bob dodging the local cattle (cows, goats and water buffalos) and land monitors on our drive to our next location slap back in the middle (5 mins walk either way) of Pasikuda Bay and Kalkudah Beach. The beach within the bay is flat white sand with virtually no waves, compared to Kalkudah beach with a long wide beach with large waves. Both of which had a grand total of ten people of us being four of those.

Day Eight - Beach day

Today has been a very chilled out day, spent most of the day lounging around on the virtually deserted beach enjoying the clear blue Indian ocean with great crashing waves, followed by chilling out on the veranda of our beach cottage, watching the cows go by. Finally topped of with a homemade Sri Lankan meal with the cottage owners family.

Day Seven - Mammoth tuktuk drive

Morning started with a massive Sri Lankan breakfast, followed by a quick trip to a local colourful temple before our mammoth 239km trip from Jaffna to Trincomalee. During which we once again saw some stunning sights whilst driving through some of the National Parks with wild gibbons crossing the roads, some seasonal festivals (watch the video with a guy being suspended by his skin flying down the road) not the mention the amazing Sri Lankan coastline. What better way to end the day with fun in the sea and a cold beer.

Day Three - Monkeys!!!

A day of monkeys and dirt tracks.
We were woken up with monkeys on the top of and all around our tree house. Then after breakfast we went to Pidurangala Rock for abit of a hike and rock climb, with an amazing view and once again being watched by monkeys. We arrive back to Bob, to discover he had been ransacked by a group of monkeys (one stole Diesel's bottle of Fanta).
What you can't see in the first short video, is that I walked behind Bob, as it had to go up a 45% hill climb up a bumpy dirt track.

Day Four - Willpattu National Park

Today we swapped Bob for a Jeep with a driver (actually named Mr Bobi, haha) for a safari around Willpattu National Park. Where we saw countless wild animals, including different types of birds (Inc Sri Lankan jungle fowl) , deers, monkeys, water bufallos, several crocodiles, hares, land monitors, boars and... Some leopards, the best of which was a mother and her cub drinking from a watering hole. Photos below are not the best as all taken on my phone, as we have no way to retrieve the camera photos until we return to Thailand.

Day Five - Long drive

A long slow drive from Anuradhapura to Jaffna (210km) with lunch at a little hut, petrol from a random house, a couple of police stops for no reason other than me being a white woman driving a tuktuk. Afternoon spent nosing around Jaffna Fort.

Day Six- Jaffna

Morning spent at Nallur Kovil Temple,  followed by a walk around the town's Market and the fisherman's village, where I looked at the highly decorative houses, Neo looked at the local street dogs and children and Diesel hunted for bullet holes in buildings (in fact that's all he's looked for since being in Jaffna). Followed by a swim in the hotel pool for the boys, which turned into a amusement for wedding guests in the hotel function room, who left the wedding function to watch two white boys play in the pool.