28/2/17 Tuesday
First stop to U W elephant transit home. Mixed feelings as this is a bit zoo like. They have about 30 young elephants that they feed until they are about 10 then released into the national park. Except for the poor old boy withe artificial foot..lost it in a trap.
The young elephants know the routine. They are allowed in a few at a time for a bottle feed via a tube. Some braver ones bully the smaller ones but wardens are boss. Some funny characters. They can certainly trot on from the gate to the feeding station.
On to Yala. Weather started humid, turned sunny then to monsoon style rain and wind. Now hot humid and sunny.
Roads in this area very new with dual carriageways which the locals have an interesting way of navigating. ..going the wrong way down the dual carriageway is common as shortest route rule applies. Land monitors and mongoose crossing are also natural obstacles. New airport cricket stadium and roads built as president lives around here...Other areas not getting that type of improvements.
Group of wild boars seem happy to stop the traffic in the hope of some snacks.
Hotel is Cinnamon Wild. Little bunglows set in trees by water hole complete with buffalo and Crocodiles. Elephants, Sloth bears, Jackals, leopards might be spotted so escorts required from chalets at night.
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