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Day 8 - Grithale & Bike Ride

5th March 2025

North Central Province 

  

Views & Bikes



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Days 1 & 2 - London to Dubai Day 3 - Dubai Burj Khalifa & Palm Jumeirah Day 4 - to Sri Lanka - Covanro
Day 5 - Covanro Day 6 - Dambulla & Sigiriya Day 7 - Sigiriya Rock & Elephants
Day 8 - Grithale & Bike Ride Day 9 - Polonnaruwa & Kandy Spice Day 10 - Kandy - Temple of the Tooth
Day 11 - Kandy - Town & Lake Day 12 - Kitulgala Rafting & Nuwara Eliya Day 13 - Nuwara Eliya
Day 14 - Ella Day 15 - Kataragama & Yala NP Day 16 - Udawalawe Elephants & Ahangama
Day 17 - Ahangama Dolphins & Mangroves Day 18 - Galle Day 19 - to Home



Last breakfast at the hotel in Sigiriya before moving on to Grithale...



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Room

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On the way to Grithale we passed this completely wild Elephant having bath in a lake...

Wild Elephant 1

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Seemed to be having a ball...

Wild Elephant 2



Bike ride around Grithale - canal & lake...

Bike 1
 
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My steed, as ever with hire bikes, it grumbled and squeaked beneath me...
 
Bike 2



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Cow and storks in the canal...

Bike 3


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Storks...

Bike 4

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Another flashy Peacock...

Peacock

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Rice drying on the road...

Rice 1

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Rice 2

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Fresh coconut break...

Coconut 1

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Coconut 2


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Lunch at a local farm under a Banyan Tree...

Lunch 1


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Lunch 2

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Lunch 3

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Lunch 4

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Flowers at the hotel...

Hotel 1


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Monkey warning...

Monkey warning


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Sunset view from the room...

 
Sunset 1

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Sunset 2

 

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Days 1 & 2 - London to Dubai Day 3 - Dubai Burj Khalifa & Palm Jumeirah Day 4 - to Sri Lanka - Covanro
Day 5 - Covanro Day 6 - Dambulla & Sigiriya Day 7 - Sigiriya Rock & Elephants
Day 8 - Grithale & Bike Ride Day 9 - Polonnaruwa & Kandy Spice Day 10 - Kandy - Temple of the Tooth
Day 11 - Kandy - Town & Lake Day 12 - Kitulgala Rafting & Nuwara Eliya Day 13 - Nuwara Eliya
Day 14 - Ella Day 15 - Kataragama & Yala NP Day 16 - Udawalawe Elephants & Ahangama
Day 17 - Ahangama Dolphins & Mangroves Day 18 - Galle Day 19 - to Home