Sri Lanka We arrived in Sri Lanka at 9:00pm after a 3-hour flight. Our private tour guide and driver, Taranga, greets us with a tremendous grin. He then takes us to our hotel for the night. Our journey begins with Christmas carols all night long from the Church next door. The drive to Haputale was rough. Tauranga said it would take 4 hours, but instead it was a long 6-hour drive in duration because of the storm. Along the way, we saw very cute towns and vagabond dogs. Fortunately, they were unlikely to have rabies (or as likely as Luis Suarez to have rabies). Eventually, we got there. We stayed at a bungalow called ‘Cloud Bungalow’ which was on the top of very steep ridge, overlooking the Sri Lankan highlands and tea plantations. I have to
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