Our trip to Kandy

The one day trip we went to Kandy was fun; we enjoyed the trip a lot. On the 24^th of September, vision impaired students of the New Light Blind Center ANMA Massage Course, managers and other helpers of the New Light Blind Center went on a trip to Kandy. The trip was organized by Mr. Park the course director, Mr. Suresh the course manager and Mr. Munasingha the translator. There were 10 vision impaired students including me joined the trip. Our trainer Mr. Lee, Missionary Lee and Mrs. Amuda our chef joined the trip.

We left Kirulapana at about 8 a.m. We first went to the Pinnawala elephant orphanage. On our way we brought some tasty Pineapples. We reached Pinnawala at about 11a.m. regular vision organizers and partially sighted students guided the totally blind students. Starting from the ticket counter to the last place we visited where we saw elephant bath, only one question we heard from other people and it was “How can blind people see elephants?” That question will be answered after you see the photos and videos we took at Pinnawala. We enjoyed hearing elephant trumpet. Feeding elephants with fruits was fun and it was amazing the feeling we got when we hold the fruit in front of the elephant it suddenly grab the fruit from our hand. It was really fun. An elephant is an intelligent animal; there is a video we were able to record when our trainer Mr. Lee who is totally blind was feeding the elephant it made a lovely trumpet just as it felt sorry for the group of people who have come to see them.

Our next visit was to the Kandy Temple. On our way we had our lunch at the Kandy Church. We couldn’t go to Botanical garden because it was raining at that time. After worshiping the Kandy temple, we went to the Kandy view point where you can see the entire Kandy city in a single view. It was windy there and it was so relaxing to spend time at the Kandy view point. Finally we went to the Kandy City Center. We had ice cream and other refreshments there. We left Kandy at about 6p.m and we were back to Kirulapana at about 10p.m. On our way we had our dinner at a restaurant. The entire trip was fun and we sang songs in the bus and we used our metal plates as drums.

Big thanks should go to the organizers Mr. Park, Mr. Suresh, Mr. Munasingha, Missionary Lee, our bus driver Mr. Rahul and our chef Mrs. Amuda. They guided us well.