After a superb breakfast we met our driver, Upul, who drove us out of the shabby metropolis of Colombo, on a rather overcast Friday morning, in his mini bus. The lush green Sri Lankan countryside is beautiful and we stopped at a roadside stall selling pineapples and sat eating the sweet delicious fruit. We also stopped at a stall selling cashew nuts and bought big bags that were really cheap.On the way we passed through mahogany forests, coconut plantations, paddy fields and past Buddhist temples and stupas and lakes cover in lily pads. We saw a tut tut bakery speeding along full of delicious cakes and bread. Children were coming out of school the girls in white dresses with their long black plated hair. At a lakeside restaurant we stopped and had tea with our packed
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