Getting There (Is Half the fun?!) Flashing us back to India or Nepal, getting to Ilha Grande was the complete backpacker package to welcome us back to our fast travel month of August 2023. We don’t have days like this very often (anymore), so it’s always good to have a reminder of why we don’t. 🤣 It was complete with sweat-on-sweat…
Heading south from Ella, we were a bit overwhelmed by the choices for spotting wildlife in Sri Lanka’s national parks. Yala had the leopards and elephants, but was also the most popular and potentially overcrowded. Plus, we’d heard the guides aggressively chase down the wildlife in the 4x4s once they’ve been spotted. Udawalawe seemed very elephant focused (an animal that…
