It's feeding time for the elephants at the Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home.
Sharon Brettkelly goes to Sri Lanka for a holiday - and finds a nation struggling with the effects of multiple world events outside its control
The United Nations consistently ranks Sri Lanka in the top 10 nations suffering the effects of climate change - it's on the front line of extreme weather patterns.
Now it's also on the front line of a war that's shaken the globe.
When a US strike on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean happened off its coast in early March, tourists turned tail. Bookings dive-bombed, a disaster for a country that relies on visitors and was hoping to use the industry to lift itself out of developing nation status.
