Sri Lanka

After getting back from Fiji I was quickly off to Sri Lanka, and once again I had a small amount of spare time one evening. we walked out of the Hotel and stopped by a the beach, there were plenty of tuck tuck's passing us and trying to encourage us to use them for a tour. we were also being pushed by "passers by " to take a tour of their beautiful city" and visit the Buddhist temple where there was a big Festival about to start with Elephants. After a while of turning them down we picked one at random and allowed them to take us on the tour, as is the case with these sort of thing the price was difficult to pin down but we did not think it would be much. At the temple there was no festival but there was an elephant. The Elephant was a baby and obviously in some mental distress as it was chained on its rear left and front right foot and had very little ability to move. we were being encouraged to pay to feed it. when we were dropped back at the beach the discussions started about the fee, they tried to scam us but only for the equivalent of 15 Euro, we negotiated it down to 10 Euro and then paid him. I hate the bitter taste this sort of thing leaves and was distinctly uncomfortable about the elephant but there was nothing I could do about it.