So this morning, if you can call 5am morning, matt and i woke up to go see the sunrise. We met wije and we drove to the bottom of a mountain called ‘little adams peak’ so basically it was just a smaller version of the one i did before. We climbed and gained a dog at the bottom who followed us throughout the whole trek haha.. She was called foxy because she looked exactly like a fox but she was a dog, a dox if you like. So she was our spiritual animal that guided us.. Although she lead us the wrong way and we had to head back again, we got there in the end (some would say it was stupid to follow a dog (or dox) anyway but we believed in foxy). The sunrise was just beautiful!! You could properly see all the rays of light coming out from behind the mountains. It was different to adams peak and both were amazing so yeah i like sunrises now. We headed back down and went back to the hotel for breakfast.
After a shower we visited a tea plantation! It was different to the first one i visited because it was just a green tea factory.. The process is a bit simpler and the tour was a lot safer than the last one haha 😹
After that we headed to Yala National Park where we went to yet another extremely nice hotel!
We went on a SAFARI! Yala national park is the biggest park in sri lanka and omg its so beautiful. Like completely different to the sri lankan scenery ive experienced so far. We went in a jeep thing that had a load of seats and a roof on the back haha so open and unsafe but thats just how we like it. As soon as we set off we saw an elephant, then another mother elephant with a little baby! And the mother was preggers aswell!! We saw so many exotic birds and water buffaloes. Just driving round was amazing, so many lakes, forests, huge rocks, plains, fields… Everything! The best part was when we stumbled upon a tusked elephant and there was only us and another jeep to see it. It walked right up against the jeep and yes i touched it. It was just amazing to see a wild elephant so close! They are huge!!! Also made a difference it wasn’t in chains or anything.
We unfortunately didn’t see any leopards today but they are particularly rare to see so we were happy with the close encounters of the elephants.
After that excitement we headed back to the hotel and had tea, where we then played cards and slept in our wonderful beds ☺️ just a really beautiful day in all ❤️

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️