Sunday 10 December 2017

SRI LANKA (2)

Next day we travelled south to Kandy visiting a spice garden on route
UNIDENTIFIED THRUSH.
First stop in Kandy was the PERADENIYA BOTANIC GARDENS where a few birds were added ,the rain continued to follow us and a visit to the orchid house during one shower was worthwhile.

BLUE THROATED FLYCATCHER

WHITE BELLIED DRONGO

BLACK HOODED ORIOLE

LOTENS SUNBIRD

ORIENTAL MAGPIE ROBIN
WHITE FOUR RING
A few from the orchid house.







FLOODLIT BUDDAH KANDY
KANDY BY NIGHT
GOLDEN TEMPLE DAMBULLA

GOLDEN BUDDAH DAMBULLA

GOLDEN BUDDAH DAMBULLA

FRUIT STALLS ARE EVERYWHERE.


TEMPLE OF THE SACRED TOOTH-KANDY.


MARBLE BUDDAH

TEMPLE OF THE SACRED TOOTH.
After the visit to the Temple of the sacred tooth,where we joined hundreds of others to see Buddahs tooth relic, an interesting experience although to see it you would need to be very lucky,we headed south once again to Nuwara Eliya.On the way we visited a tea plantation and factory and spent a fortune,relatively speaking on posh tea bags.


THE GOLDEN FLUSH.
Onwards and upwards to our next hotel the Heritance Tea Factory converted to a comfortable hotel,1900 m above sea level.
HERITANCE TEA FACTORY HOTEL
Left largely to our own devices for two days we had a few walks around the grounds and beyond,we went on one guided nature walk with a hotel employee who knew absolutely nothing about birds  and not much else really,turns out he had just been promoted from head gardener.However I found a few new birds for the trip.
 ASHY PRINIA

 INDIAN BLACKBIRD
 ORIENTAL WHITE EYE
 SRI LANKAN HANGING PARROT
 SRI LANKAN HANGING PARROT
 ORIENTAL WHITE EYE
 SPOTTED DOVE
 PIED BUSH CHAT
 COMMON TAILOR BIRD
 ORIENTAL WHITE EYE

 PURPLE RUMPED SUNBIRD

LESSER GRASS BLUE.
Next time we head to the coast at Yala where the weather should be better.

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