Caroline Russell has just returned from a long anticipated two week holiday in Sri Lanka. She very kindly put together the following account of her trip for us to add to our blog. Here she describes her experience of a classic Experience Travel trip, mixing adventure and luxury and included some of her favourite snaps to accompany the piece. She writes:
“I’m British and tie myself in knots over tipping and service. On my visit to Sri Lanka I couldn’t have been more wrong when I was bothered about being driven around as a lady of leisure. Deva, a tall older man whose father had served as a surgeon with the British navy before independence in 1948, was courteous but never subservient, and besides being an excellent driver with an immaculate and comfortable car, was a mine of information on every stage of our trip. He told us facts on the economy, on the history and on Sri Lanka’s varied geography and climate while he drove us through the wet low country to the hilly region and then on to the dry zone. (more…)
The ‘Gathering of the Elephants’ in Minneriya National Park is one of the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomenon. Hundreds of Asian elephants converge around the park’s main lake generally between July and October, coinciding with the dry season in Sri Lanka’s North Central & Eastern provinces. The tank is an incredible place to observe elephants that come to bathe and graze on the grasses as well as the huge flocks of birds that come to fish in the shallow waters. 
