Travels with V
Sri Lanka
Flying foxes and fat lizards
Kandy part two
A few kilometers outside Kandy city you’ll find its lovely Botanical Gardens, once the king of Kandy’s private property. It’s huge and rich with gigantic bamboo trees, various exotic cactuses, ficus trees with entangled roots, flowers of every imaginable colour, and also home to animals like monkeys, palm squirrels and flying foxes. It’s definitely one of the most overwhelming gardens we have ever seen.
The city of Kandy is built on hills and is a fresh and green city. Close to the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple is a fairly big lake, which is actually a man-made dam, full of big fish. Along it’s shores lie fat, gorged lizards, or more accurate, water monitor lizards, one of the largest lizards in the world.
Now we head east to the city where the British colonial masters spent their summers in the cool of the mountains. And kiss under a waterfall…
