*We travelled slightly away from Kandy and headed to an ancient wooden Temple which was set high on a hill – it was beautifully preserved and fascinating to see the detailed pictures etched in wood.

*Painfully hot steps led us to our next temple, a friendly tour guide showed us round and let us look at his paintings – they were beautiful and we each chose our favourite one!

*The afternoon was spent at the Elephant Orphanage seeing baby elephants guzzling masses of milk, later on we managed to see them going for their daily walk to the river for a bathe in the cool water!

*We picked up fruit from various village stalls on our journey home and had a lovely tea cooked by Saida and Kate!