![]() Rogue safari w D & Karu - at dusk, drive in jeep to the outskirts of Minneriya National Park (close to Sigiriya) to a place where the elephants cross the road at night. Nothing says freedom like standing in the back of a safari jeep in the warm wind at sunset!!! Simple pleasures, but to-the-core thrilling. We found 2 groups, the second of which was right by the road behind some bushes and trees - we didn't want to disturb them so kept lights off, and as the night descended we just sat by the side of the road and listened - to the crickets and frogs and birds and these massive elephant jaws, ripping grass and branches, snuffling & and chewing… I can’t even explain the state of rapture this put me in; I almost cried, so intimate & beautiful, so close to these wild, majestic beings, respectful visitors in their home. Once in a Lifetime… and then - on the way home, now pitch black, lying down in the back of the jeep with a black sky above full of stars and hundreds of fireflies, which, at that speed, looked like shooting stars flying across the sky. UNBELIEVABLE!!
“Cooking lesson” in the restaurant kitchen @ Lion’s Rest- I helped to make curry, and everyone within 1/2 a mile came in at some point to peek/stare, giggle, and comment!! Performance anxiety… and FUN!!! :))) Biking around Sigiriya village, rich red dirt roads, immaculate compounds with mud or brick houses, jungle, temple and then climbed up to watch sunset on Pidurangala Rock, an outcropping that faces the side of Lion Rock. Spectacular. Mangey puppy.
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