Next stop --- Colombo, Sri Lanka, another new country.  On this tour we  were taken to a Bhudist Temple which was a huge complex with so many Bhudas that I couldn’t pick one  photo to put here.  Instead I enjoyed seeing three boys feed this elephant  with those tiny bananas.  He would take the bananas from them with his trunk then pop the bananas right into his mouth.

Later we stopped at an old hotel for refreshments and across the way we spotted a snake charmer  with a cobra and a huge python.

Fortunately, Sri Lanka was a welcome respite from the heat.  It was warm but not oppressively hot but I still was happy to get back to the cabin after all our sight seeing.

This morning we had a pirate drill We are now in pirate territory and our Captain actually had a drill for crew and passengers if a pirate boat is spotted.  We now have razor wire all around deck 3 together with high pressure hoses.  Some of the passengers actually get worried about this sort of thing.  The chance of pirates able to board our ship is next to impossible.