Up in the hills for a couple of days - and we can breathe! The humidity in Colombo is really oppressive, and we spend quite a lot of time hiding in air conditioning or by the pool.
Up here, its more like an English summer's day, quite warm but you can actually sit outside for more than 10 mintures without feeling uncomfortable. And the swimming pool was not so warm as to feel like a bath, so I had a real swim for once.
We're at the Hunas Falls hotel, right next to a waterfall, with a dramatic view for miles across the hills. J had a couple of good draughts sessions on the balcony - and later we cllimbed the large hill to the right in this picture.
Up here, its more like an English summer's day, quite warm but you can actually sit outside for more than 10 mintures without feeling uncomfortable. And the swimming pool was not so warm as to feel like a bath, so I had a real swim for once.
We're at the Hunas Falls hotel, right next to a waterfall, with a dramatic view for miles across the hills. J had a couple of good draughts sessions on the balcony - and later we cllimbed the large hill to the right in this picture.
J was an intrepid climber...
...but complained a couple of times about black worms trying to creep into his shoes. Turns out he was right to be concerned. When I got back I realised that the black worms that J had shaken off were leeches, and I had one attached to each of my legs. They washed off with a bit of soap and water, and the holes bled for a while, but the strangest thing to me as a leech novice was that at no point did the wounds hurt at all. Maybe being bled by leeches was not that bad after all.
S was also pretty intrepid - see her as a small dot on my back having hiked up to one of the waterfalls.
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