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Sri Lanka - the final few days in Hikkaduwa

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This post will be very photo heavy as there's just too many photos to share!! Amin joined us the previous night and we set him up in one of our many spare rooms. We began the following morning by getting into a tuktuk and going to the sea turtle hatchery.  It was quite educational, there were little sand lumps labelled with different egg breeds, plus some tanks filled with injured turtles.  A lot of turtles get their flippers trapped on fishing nets or bits of plastic in the sea, and then end up swimming round in circles if one of the flippers is injured beyond repair.  It's really sad.  We were allowed to hold the turtles which was a great experience, the baby ones are SO CUTE.  We got chatting to the owner, who had started the sanctuary after losing his entire family in the tsunami - the sanctuary was his way of keeping busy and making a living.  I nearly cried whilst he was telling his story - seeing things on the news is one thing but meeting actual survivors