http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Allegra/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Allegra en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:27:14 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:27:14 +0000 Sigiriya and Dambulla were AMAZING. Our professorIndiana Jones took us to a few of his sites. Right now he is in the process of restoring the largest brick structure stupa in the world. We got to see it being restored. Pretty amazing. I also saw my three legged monkey there. Dad you should be proud. I took an awesome picture of that monkey you'll see. Our professor took us to many archaeolog http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-36441.html Some of you were interested in reading the blogs of other people in my group. Some of them even have pictures up so you can see the places I'm talking about. You just have to search for their blogs. Kim and Jamie I'm sorry I didn't send you links to this site I forgot your new email addresses but I'm glad you found itHere are the names of the other people in my group Jon Pearce my professor http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-35647.html As I told you on Monday we did go to Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage. We got to see the elephants walk down to the river. I helped wash this one elephant's face. She was lying down in the water and she grabbed my hand with her trunk They have a tight grip I tried to pull my hand away and I couldn't. She then went for my leg and almost made me lose my balance and fall in the water Good thing I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-35638.html I haven't had the opportunity to do an update in a few days so here is goes Thursday I told you I was going to milk a snake. Well I didn't get the opportunity to do that. Prof. de Silva was on a research expedition and was attacked by hundreds of ticks and he was hospitalized for a few days. He was still really weak so he didn't want to bring out all of his super poisonous snakes because he http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-34764.html It's been raining here. I like it. It may prevent us from seeing some of the creatures today during our field studies but the sounds it very soothing. It's also funny to see the monkeys all wet. the fur on top of their heads looks like when someone towel dries their hair and stands up all crazy. SO CUTE Today is Herpetofauna day. Herpetofauna is the study of amphibians and reptiles. We just http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-34346.html This morning we drove to PGIS and performed the opening ceremony for our program. There were introductions and speeches and the Chancellors and professors lit the special oil lamp. We began lecture this morning with the the ecosystems of Sri Lanka. Right now we're having a break and when we resume we will have a lecture on vertebrae diversity. I'm really looking forward to that one Yester http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-34184.html