Tuesday, Feb 18th, Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka

Greetings!

Travel west down a long winding road and into a high valley full of terraced fields where rice will soon be harvested.  Past temples and railway stations that bring pilgrims to pray, and waterfalls and schools, both free and enriching.

You'll find a land where people look right at you, and bring a goodness that haunts those of us who tend to find reasons to sometimes look away.

We've a couple more days on the island.  Heading back to India for six more weeks to deepen our understanding of what a thousand years of a great culture has built.

The Yala National Park, at 378 square miles, is a wildlife sanctuary host elephants, leopards, water buffalo, many types of deer, and more bird species than one could imagine.  We visited for four and a half hours in the heat of the day, and will be back tomorrow morning early.

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