Sunday 6 March 2016

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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