The boys are from a temple at the bottom of a big hill, five of us climbed the hill one sunday morning, views are spectacular but climb was hard. the views overlook the national park at Gal Oya and the lake in the previous blog. We had tea with the head monk afterwards. It's a good place to visit and not far to go. Afterwards we went back to Ampara and had a swim in a local lake, alledgedly no crocodiles there, depending who you talk to!
Just got back from temple where we, several INGO workers and I, were waiting for the elephants, no show again! I have had a good day though, went with Claudia, Mike and Ben to climb a mountain, very big hill, in this heat it is a mountain. I haven’t sweated as bad as I did this morning, must have lost pounds! Views from the top were good, afterwards we had tea with a Buddhist monk in the temple at the bottom. Then back to Ampara where Riosh the driver took us to a swimming lake, now I know where it is will go again. I have had colder baths than the water in the lake, but good to have a swim.
Tonight was planning to watch a DVD but power is off, has been for a while, generator is running but doesn’t seem right so have disconnected lap top from mains. The fan is a good guide to electricity supply and at the moment it goes from off, and no light, to tick over with dim light, then takeoff speed which is quite scary as it looks like it could come off the ceiling, with bright light. It never goes that fast on mains power. The lights are usually dim anyway but glow nicely on full generator throttle or whatever is happening.
