Marie and I are now half way through our travel time! We have been to Kandy, the Pinnawela elephant orphanage, Dambulla (rock temples), Sigiria, Polonnaruwa and now we are in Annuradhapura! Yesterday we discovered that you could get female Buddhist nuns. Up until that point we thought that they were all male as the male and female monks all where a orange tunic and have a shaved head with no jewelry you can see that this was an easy mistake to make! We then went to a female only temple and got blessed by one of the nuns who then asked us in her pigeon English whether we were married, had kids, etc the usual questions and we obviously passed the test as then she said "you now become monk?!" and we had to try and
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