We were happy to leave our strange hotel and headed on the most adventurous day.

It started out with doing “the short and easier hike”.

I had hurt my foot somehow a couple of weeks earlier so doing a ton of hiking was not high on my list of things to do. Plus the heat!

So we climbed the famous pidurangalarock and got the view of the sigiriya lion’s rock rather than the other way around.

The hike was hot and enough steps, and had some crazy tight squeezes and climbing rocks and balancing acts. Not my fave to be honest – but we did it. The views were very pretty.

After we did the hike, then had a cart ride and boat ride before visiting a traditional Sri Lankan home where we helped make lunch. It was very reminiscent of an experience we had in Cambodia with the kids – and like that experience – it was one of our best meals.

We then headed on a 4 hour elephant safari!

Do you think we squeezed enough in the day?!?!

At the end of the day, Sandu suggested we head to a traditional spa for treatments and even though it was one more activity, we thought it would be a great way to relax.

No pictures here but we did a traditional massage and then did this hot oil dripping on our foreheads kind of massage – the oil was a bit too hot for Rob lol. But it was still really relaxing overall

It was, but we were exhausted when we checked into our hotel and had dinner!