Three Friends - Gentle Giant (Part III)

As the last of the 3 Friends Trilogy and after the Wildlife of Sri Lanka

we give you some scenes of the same trip where, fortuitously, Hugh, Janet and I met for the first time 

10 YEARS AGO!

 The darker the skin, seemingly the whiter the shirts!

School Children at

 SURUMUNIYA VIHARA

 RUVANVELISAYA DAGOBA TEMPLE

 Ditto with Bamboo Scaffold

TRAINEE MONKS

 SAMADHI BUDDHA

 KATTAM POKUNA

 KINGFISHER

 ABHAYAGIRI DAGOBA 

( with even more precarious bamboo scaffold)

ELEPHANT FERRY

 SIGIRIYA or LION ROCK

 GROUND LEVEL

 HALF WAY UP

and entrance to the

 CAVE FRESCOES

 VIEWS FROM THE TOP

PLATEAU GARDENS

 COCONUT SELLER

 PALM READER

 PALM FROND WEAVER

 FIREWOOD GATHERER
not to be confused with the South American Bird with the same
(brilliant) name.

 FIREWOOD GATHERER
(Argentina 2010)

DHOBI WALLAHS

RECLINING BUDDHA DAMBULLA

 TEMPLE of the TOOTH

 AN EVENINGS ENTERTAINMENT

 with the

 KANDY LAKE CLUB DANCE ENSEMBLE

BOHIRAVOKANDA BUDDHA STATUE

TEA PLANTATION
The most harrowing part of our journey was to view the
destruction left by the Tsunami just 2 years previously.
What was even harder to  swallow was the little that had been done to rectify matters.
Some such as those resident at

HABARADUWA BEACH
had mostly escaped the full force while just a little further on

 things were very different

whole communities devastated,

while some building work was going on.

 GALLE FORT
in the south with attendant

 CLIFF DIVERS

 LIGHTHOUSE
and

TUK-TUKS

 FISHERMEN
who had lost their boats were still reduced to shooting industrial size nets

 from small boats then hauling them by hand.

 The train Galle to back to

COLOMBO

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