Holiday begins in Sigiriya and this year's annual camera problem

I've begun my holiday! On Friday several of us drove from Batticaloa to Sigiriya in central Sri Lanka. Yesterday we climbed the ancient rock.



School boys on catwalk hundreds of feet up the side of the rock.
June 2, 2007


Half way up the Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Some of the more than 2,000 steps to the top of the rock at Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Early Sri Lankan erotica, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Merlin's Doctor Khaleda Islam, Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Merlin's Vasantha Vadivel, Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Tourist at Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007




Tree and Rock, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007



Squirrel, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
June 2, 2007

We had a lovely time but unfortunately after shooting that squirrel my camera's mirror shattered. That's very bad luck for me because I wanted to photograph birds in Scotland next week.

Anyway, I'm now in Colombo and looking forward very much to flying via Mumbai and Amsterdam to Scotland tomorrow.

Meanwhile Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka. I just received the following SMS message: "Seems 2 red cross emp from batti [Batticaloa] abducted in col [Colombo] and now found dead..." This country is full of beauty masking an undercurrent of hatred. It's tiresome and for this reason and others I'll describe in a future post, I've just resigned my job.