Both visits to Sri Lanka took us out of Colombo. And both tours brought us to the Pinnewela Elephant Orphanage, well worth seeing. We ate a nice buffet lunch while watching the elephants parade down to the river to bathe. On our second visit, we took the Victorian style steam train, the Viceroy, to Kandy. What should have been a three hour ride, turned into a seven hour trip, due to single tracking. We passed many villages and rice paddies. The scenery was spectacular. We had several stops along the way, and met the locals. Our destination of the Temple of the Tooth was a bit disappointing, since the temple itself is not what you would expect. And, of course, the tooth was not on display. That does happen only once a year. We had to surrender our shoes before entering, but had a heck of a time getting them back! Lunch was a buffet in a very nice hotel in Kandy.Traffic was unbelievable coming back to Colombo. The road is basically a one laner, with three-lane traffic. Despite the windy, twisty roads, we arrived back to the ship by the skin of our teeth. But well worth it!
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