The Botanical Gardens Sri Lanka (By: Jacob)

When we were in Kandy, Sri Lanka, we went and saw the Royal Botanical Gardens. The Botanical Gardens were 30 beautiful acres of amazing flowers and unexpected wildlife. When we got there, we walked into a orchid garden. The flowers were red, green, purplish- blue, and white, but my favorite color was the white orchid. I liked it most because it was very simple.

After lunch it started to rain a little. We liked playing soccer, by the time we finished we were soaked and looked like we got pushed into a pool.

When the rain turned into a drizzle we went from tree to tree trying as hard as we could not to get more wet. We went all the way across the gardens to a suspension bridge and walked across it. The suspension bridge is a bridge that stretches over a huge rushing river. I liked shaking the bridge which scared my mother. My favorite part was when we were walking back and saw huge bats flying around. The bats wingspan were probably 2 1/2 to 3 feet. When they were hanging upside down on the tree they looked like huge cocoons or bees nests.  There was also a lot of bats flying around, I really wanted to watch them, but I had to run through the area because I didn't want to get pooped on.

We walked some more, then the map showed us that we were in front of a lake, but sadly the lake was all dried up and it was just a huge hole of dirt. 

On our way to the exit, we had to go through a huge stretch of crazy monkeys. I felt nervous, because right in the beginning of the path, one monkey nearly jumped on our heads.  I had a great time at the gardens, even though it rained for most of the time.