Kandy, Sri Lanka

Travelled to Kandy. We spent a day at the Peredeniya botanical gardens and saw a bat up close and thousands in the trees all around. Wild monkeys were running around and playing in the trees. We got quite close to them. Manda was holding a couple of bananas in a plastic bag (that we had got earlier for our lunch) but one of the monkeys thought that they should have them rather than us. It pursued her until she managed to get them out for them as quickly as possible. The gardens were huge, we particularly liked the sausage tree, giant fig and double coconut palms. We visited the Temple of the tooth the next day where the tooth of Buddha is said to be kept (you only see the outside of a room, and inside there is supposed to be a series of chests within each other with the tooth inside the smallest one). We also went to a Kandyan dance show one evening and saw fire-walking and various dances.