We set out from home on the 7th of September, 2006 at around 5.45 a.m. and we met at a friend's place and then set out from there in 3 vehicles. There were 10 of us. We had breakfast along the way at Silverray at Pelmadulla. We got to the park entrance and had to wait sometime for a tracker as there was a crowd that weekend in the park and trackers were hard to come by. We finally got our tracker and headed towards the bungalow. We finally reached the bungalow at around 1.50 p.m. The highlight of this trip for me was, I got to drive in the park, something I usually do not do, but since there were 2 other vehicles in front of us and this park does not have many leopards I decided to drive. We had lunch and rested awhile. Then we had tea and some goodies and set out on our evening round. We did see plenty of elephants.
A couple of elephants decided to charge us this time. But it really was not that bad. It was really bad cos I was driving. We were at Thimbirimankada from the 7th to the 10th. Three of the guys decided to bathe in the river - water was in short supply.
The last day when we were leaving the park we were surrounded by a herd of elephant who decided to do their number and did not let us go for over an hour. When we finally decided to move they decided to charge us - this was bad, and mercifully I was not driving!!!
There was plenty of bird life too. Nothing rare though. We returned home on the 10th night stopping along the way once again at Pelmadulla for a snack.
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