Saturday 17th – Part 2 of 2

Back to the hotel to get rid of the safari dust, then 3 hours to the south coast.  Let’s buy a bag from a bag shop.

Then to our hotel – view from the terrace.

Then a light monsoon.

Then a fabulous walk along the beach at sunset.  Here goes …

With dinner to be served on the terrace.  It’s a little bit of paradise here.

Although seriously, this is where the tsunami hit on Boxing Day 12 years ago.  Sam our driver saw it, and one of the waiters at the Morning Dew also remembered it.  Paradise suddenly turned deadly.  What was most extraordinary, though, is that there is no record of any of the wildlife in Yala being killed – somehow they all knew something was up and retreated inland and to higher ground.

Another early start tomorrow …