We spent a few days not doing much, swimming, eating and sleeping mostly, but can't do that for much longer so we headed up country agian (with a different guide!) to take in a bit of culture!!! We attempted to clime the lion rock yesterday, all the pictures of Sri Lanka show this rock as their ancient history, where they have frescos paintings inside. Well it really is huge, and steps that are so steep and so narrow that even my little feet didn't fit on them. The must have been lovingly laid one at a time, and over the years they have been rubbed smooth with all the feet walking on them. It is said that the king lived on top of the rock and from the sky you can still see his swimming pool. I can just imagin all the slaves carrying a pot of water to the top, one at a time!! The rock was surrounded by a natural mote alive with crocodiles, so they probably lost a few slave to the crocs as well as from being totally knackerd!! Bev made it up about half way. There was quite a strong wind and he is so dating now that he was worried about been blown over the side if he went further! I wanted to see the paintings so went on. The wat to get into the cave was up a mettle spiral staircase bolted to the size of the rock!! Well call me stupid if you like but I made it up about 20 steps then turned around and came back down again, I don't like heights and although there was a "cage" around the steps I still didn't feel safe!! ( besides the way this holiday has been going, anything could have happened!!!!!). Still I continued around the rock to the lions feet. The view was breath taking but enough was enough, my poor old knees would not have made it any further! This time it would have been up another metal stair case at least 200 steps high, zig zagging but this time with no cage. Time for me to decend I am afraid! Now my legs did start to wobble, you don't realise that you have to use different muscles when you come down that was almost as hard as going up, but at least I could see the ground coming towards me and not going away!!!! It was amazing (and surely I must have lost a few pounds!!!)