On the road to Padeniya fromPolgahawela, Sri Lanka.

Flower in bloom and ripe King Coconuts, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

One of the signs of feminine beauty in Sri Lanka, is to have the skin color, like that of the 'Ran Thambili' - Sinhalese for a King Coconut.

Railway station, Polgahawela, Sri Lanka.

Scenes at Kadugannaawa, Sri Lanka.

Entering the town of Kadugannaawa

Railway signals.

Jaw bone and skull of an elephant, Udawalawe elephant orphanage, Sri Lanka.

Milk feeding time at the Udawalawe Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka.

Elephant orphan with an artificial leg at play, pushing a sibling into a muddy pool.

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The climb to Kadugannawa, Sri Lanka.

Fruit and trinket stalls by the road-side. Note the spout of water from a rubber hose used to wash vehicles for a fee.

The climb past the old tunnel.

On the road to Mawanella from Kegalle, Sri Lanka.

One of the rocky haunts of Saradiel, the legendary Robin Hood of Sri Lanka.

A Mosque by the roadside.

Video summary of the trip to the Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

What I saw and photographed on an afternoon trip :-

https://youtu.be/0IN2TZBL9T8

Breakfast by the roadside on the road to Kandy on a Full moon Holiday, Sri Lanka.

Star Tortoise, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Herd of spotted Deer, vanishing into the shrubs, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Male Spotted Deer, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

A water reservoir and the hills of Uva.

Enjoying an evening stroll.

A fox carrying a dead bird, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Nice shiny hair - A well-fed fox.

Spotted Deer, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Orphan elephants cared for and released back nto the jungle with electronic collars.

Wild buffaloes, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Evening shadows and a leopards lair, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

Evening shadows on the mud track.

A leopards lair with no leopard in sight.

Rain-heavy clouds, lone wild buffalo, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

According to jungle lore, the wild buffalo is the most dangerous animal to meet in the wild. A friend of mine 'Thiru' had  gone into the jungles in the 1950s with a tracker. It was on a moonless night. They were trekking along a muddy jungle path, using an occasional flash from a torch. One such fllash revealed the red 'Bulls-eyes' reflected from a herd of buffaloes surrounding them. The tracker tapped Thiru on the shoulder and said softly 'freeze'. Both waited still for nearly half an hour till the herd moved away. Thiru told me that this was the scariest half hour in his life. A charging wild buffalo can trample to death a human encountering it.

Clouds and Pea-cock, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka.