Suite Life

We awoke in Anuradhapura ready to move onto Dambulla. I was really sick throughout the night with sickness, fever, intense pressure in my head etc etc and so hadn't slept a wink. I have been soooo ill and I am still quite ill, even though I think I may be over the worst of it now. The car journey took about 2 hours (ever journey takes twice as long with our driver, lord knows why!!) and I had to spend the journey led across the back seat on Mike and concentrate on not throwing up. We arrive at our hostel in Bandulla and we had made sure we booked somewhere with satellite t.v as with me being ill and in an area where there is NOTHING to do at night we wanted to make sure Mike had something to do. We got there and it would do, not amazing and not terrible. The staff seemed sweet etc. However, there was no t.v which means Mike would have to stare and talk to the wall all night, and it was only 4pm. He went to reception to enquire as to where our t.v was and suprise suprise- it was being repaired. Despite the fact there was no cable socket in the room whatsoever so the were blatantly lying. They didn't even offer us a new room with a t.v as no t.v was working. So he came back to the room and we looked for somewhere else to stay as we had already spent x-amount of nights with nothing to do in th evening with no t.v or anything and now I was ill he really needed something to keep him occupied. We booked a deal at a nice hotel, a little pricey for travellers but I was too ill to care. We went to the car and then they all of a sudden had a better room for us, too late as we had already paid for the new room, and we did tell them we would look for somewhere else, and the fact they lied again about the t.v as we heard the other t.vs working so....we left.
We arrived at our new lush hotel and it was amazing. As we sipped our welcome drinks we spotted a wild elephant. We were shown to our room and had been given a free upgrade to a suite which was AMAZING, my photos do not do it justice! It had a living room, bedroom and huge bathroom. 2 televisions, a 2 people jacuzzi bath, a monsoon shower room etc etc etc.

 

So then we ordered room service as I was too ill to sit in a restaurant and chilled for a bit. We decided to treat ourselves further (and make me feel better) by having a 'couples spa treatment'. This was certainly an experience. It started by having a foot scrub and then Mike and I having to get into our paper undies which cracked me up as it looked as though Mike was wearing a nappy. Then we led down next to each other and both got an all over body scrub. When this was done Mike was told to get in the shower first so I set to wait until the lady wouldn't leave the room until I got in with him (she insisted). After the shower we were led outside to a stone bath filled with wam water, chopped lemon and limes and a hint of lavender. We got in and chilled, until the lady came out bringing us iced tea, ginger tea and orange segments which meant I was desperately trying to cover my shame not knowing which hand to move to accept my drink. When we got out we dried off and went back inside to our couples beds and recieved a full body and head massage. Bliss. Although I was glad when it was over as I was starting to feel dizzy and faint again. The next morning (this morning) we set off to Kandy but stopped off at the rock temple and Buddah temple in Bamdulla on the way. Also halfway along the journey we stopped at this spice village which was free of charge (in other words they all want a tip and there is a massive shop at the end with massively steep prices) which was really interesting although I was counting down the seconds for it to end due to the ol' sickness and diziness coming back in full swing. We did get a little 10 minute massage using organic products though and they demonstrated their 100% natural hair removal cream on Mike's leg which worked wonders! I wish they chose to demonstrate on my upper lip though! The curse of having dark thick hair! So we arrive in Kandy and rest before going out to dinner at a place calles Lyons. It was recommended by Lonely Planet and didn't dissappoint- although we ordered too much food....again, that or they think all Westerners are fat little piggies and are greedy. I had red chilli chicken and Mike tried th devilled chicken which I thought was a little adventurous for him, he is such a baby when it comes to spice! Tomorrow we are going to take our time seeing some of the sights and I am going on a wild hnt to find some postcards and souvenirs. Lordy knows I am a sucker for holiday tat!