Sri Lanka

It was 12 in the night. I was half asleep-half awake and trudged to my closet. After changing in my travel clothes I went to hail a taxi to take us to the international airport, to meet my cousins. We heard the trolley before we saw it. My cousin came hurtling at me and I jumped out just in time, and he hit a pole. We trudged to immigration and were on the flight.

Sri Lanka was hot and moist (perfect place for fungus to grow :)). After getting out and renting our fifteen seater van, we started towards Kandy. On the way, we visited the elephant orphanage. I was stunned at the idea of it, and was gaping in awe, but my mom rushed to the elephant feeding centre. Just for you to know, never step into the enclosure of a hungry elephant, he'll go completely nuts. After feeding him watermelons, bananas and oranges, we went to the bathing centre. We scrubbed the back of the elephants and I got hit on the head with the trunk. We came in at our hotel, dropped our bags and rushed out. We first saw the Buddha temple. It was huge you could have fitted in two cricket stadiums. In the temple, they say that there was a tooth of lord Buddha, and it's officially proven by Raghav Agrawal from the it is proven department.

The next day, we left for Bentota. On the way we stopped at the botanical garden which was huge. We were going to see the orchids as there were many types of them. There were about 50 types of orchids there. We moved around for a few hours and finally were  going to the camper. My dad challenged me to a race to the exit which 100 metres ahead. We took off. I was in the lead when I didn't notice a trees root and fell. Badly hurt  I limped to the camper with the help of my mom. We stopped for lunch at a weird place called woodlands. We continued and reached our hotel, The Bougain Villa. After dropping our bags we headed for the beach. After the beach we went to the dinner place, Golden Grill. After the food, since it was my mom's birthday we called for a pineapple surprise which was basically a pineapple cut in half with ice-cream on it. When they served it they put some alcohol on it and lit it on fire. It was cool. We headed home, and crashed.

The next day we woke up early to go to the beach, catching two auto's. We had loads of fun on the beach and went back, and seeing the breakfast table, my stomach did flips. We started our journey to the Galle fort and on the way stopped at the turtle conservation. Over there we saw many endangered species like the Olive Riddley. These people buy the  turtle eggs from fishermen and keep them for until they are two days old. They kept handicapped turtles too. We continued our way to Galle. It was basically a whole city. There was a cricket stadium where Mahilla Jawardaneye had made his highest score ever. It was a fort from the Dutch period  and inside it was a new city. We walked for a few hours and then settled down to eat lunch. We then walked around the place and had some homemade ice-cream and shopped for a while. We bought post cards and wrote on them. It's always my mom's crazy idea about sending postcards home. We went to the post office which was dingy and pushed our postcards in the box. We started for the hotel but on the way my mom insisted on stopping to watch the sunset. We stopped and took a route to the beach. We watched the sea for twenty minutes and trudged back to our camper. But then we saw something that I would never have done in my life. There were tall coconut trees. One tree was tied to the other by a string. Then on that string a man was walking, from one tree to another. I didn't know that was possible. But I knew I had lost 20 Sri Lankan rupees. I had bet that the strings were not for walking. After grabbing our seats we drove for the temple. The Buddha was huge. That's all I can say. You could see it from a mile away. Then we went for dinner. We were going to a very famous restaurant called Bentota Lake. We ordered and waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And finally got angry. We went to the kitchen to find that no one was cooking. We were so angry that we sat in our camper all grumpy as we were very hungry. But our spirits were lifted when we stopped at Golden Grill. We ate like a pack of wolves. Finally we reached home and crashed.

The next day was again started the day with the beach. After having fun for three hours, it was time to leave for Colombo. We left and on the way we played Antakshri on the journey. We came in only to be greeted by the noise. After 3 days of peace, we had to be welcomed like a Mumbaikar. But the holiday was not over. We first started our search for a restaurant. We searched. First place . No. second place . No. third place . No. like this we went around and around. My dad joked " in search of food you find the whole city." We saw the ground, the trains, on the beach and much more. Finally we found a good 5 star hotel coffee shop that served us some vegetarian food in its pastry shop. We ate like there was no tomorrow. Finally, after a the long drive we went to our hotel to freshen up.

Sitting back in our camper we split. The moms would go do some shopping and the dad would come with us. We first went to the museum. Outside the museum there we two men with really big remote control cars. They were racing them and they were going so fast that all you could see was a cloud of dust. We went into the museum and I actually had fun. We were going out when my dad insisted to talk to some Chinese woman in mandarin and so I did. We then caught an auto to the lake and grabbed our boats. We were finishing our round when the propellers of our boat got stuck and didn't budge. We got our boat and went to the docks to call for help. After pushing we finally got it harnessed to the man's motor boat. We all had some ice cream and coke and caught some more autos and went to Galle face park. Over there we saw many kites. We bought one and flew it. The winds were good and it was the first time I had flown one. We then sat then, watching the sea. We had to then leave for dinner. We found a very nice Indian place and were welcomed straight away by the smell of dosa's. We wolfed the dinner like a pack of hungry wolves. When we reached the hotel we immediately crashed. 

The next day I was awoken with my uncle looming over me already with his swimming gear on. I quickly put on my swimming gear and was in the pool within minutes. After having a hearty breakfast we were going to say bye-bye to Sri Lanka. We drove to the airport and with nothing to declare we sat in the plane.

I was greeted back in Mumbai with the usual noise and pollution. When we reached home I sat down and ta-da. I wrote the thing that you have just read.