We got onto another bus, fighting our way through obnoxious droves of tuk-tuk-driver/tour guides/guest house operators, and arrived in Sigiriya, where there is a fortress/monastery built on a giant magma plug. (Magma plus happen when a volcano has eroded away, leaving only the hardened column of magma that filled its core.) We found the Flower Hotel, which was decent and had a very pretty yard (with lots of flowers), though we kept finding frogs in out bathroom. We turned out 5 frogs in our first evening, then eventually gave up. Maybe they would help keep the mosquitoes in check. One annoying thing about mosquitoes (aside from the fact that they exist) is that they really like me, but they don't seem to even notice Ashley. I have been bitten even while sleeping under a mosquito net,
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