Sri Lanka random collection

They are pictures which I took in Kandy

Kandy is the second largest city in Sri Lanka 

The city is surrounded by hills and those hills have protected the city from many wars 

There is a famous temple called Sri Dalada Maligawa which has the tooth relic of Buddha

Inside Sri Dalada Maligawa was really crowded and many people were praying for small babies





Buddhist temple

Balmy day in a Buddhist temple

A clever dog which is waiting for a bus to go
He waited for long time to cross the road
After he crossed the road, he went to a hospital

Newspaper seller

Random pictures

At Dehiwala zoo
It might be rude to say but white icecreams were standing out in the dim evening zoo

A vegetable sellers that came to my house

Pinnawala elephant orphanage

Pinnawala elephant orphanage has the largest captive herd in the world

There are about 90 elephants and they were grazing, working and being fed 

Baby elephant was always in the middle of the herd, being protected by many elephants

Morning walk
Every morning and evening, the herd goes to a river to take a bath

Evening walk

Cheerful babies
They like putting their nose in each mouth

The Beach

Beach

I went east and west coast of Sri Lanka

Apparently I could see sunrise in east coast and sun set in west coast.

It is like east and west coast is having opposite season

Fishermen can catch same fish but in different season 

I will post east coast and west coast picture randomly so please compare 

the color of the sea, sky and temperature of the wind 

Colombo at Galle face
Many people were taking bath
Explanation of "taking bath" is new to me, since I used to say "swim"

Many people from different religion, culture and background are living in Sri Lanka

East coast, Kalmunai in the morning
East coast sea was really calm without much wave
boys were playing from sunrise time., and girls were walking for their exercise

West coast morning
sun rises from mountain in this place but people are active without sun

Boy was waiting for his dad to finish his exercise
He was digging a hole but finally he was defeated by the great wave

My little friend Anika
Usually kid cannot get inside the sea, but I took her out and let her play with waves
She was pretty excited with little frightening feeling

A two meter crocodile was found in the shore of beach
I haven't seen such a lots of people in the beach of Dehiwala
Everyone was so excited to see the crocodile and were shouting "kimura kimura"
How many people told me that!!!!

Fisher men in Sri Lanka

I went for a trip to Sri Lanka 

Sri Lanka is where I was born

I haven't visited for 24 years, since I was born 

The war has finished and country was proceeding for a new direction

I had a chance to visit both east and west coast

Even Sri Lanka is not a big country, east and west coast was different climate,

different people, different language, different fish and different color of sea

" The fisherman"
He was cleaning squids
near Dehiwala station








East coast- Kalmunai
East coast was good weather, dry and cool but sunny
Most of fisher men I met were Tamil people, easy going, cheerful and kind
When they work, they work hard but other time, they rest well

Turning the boat direction
Some of them are going to night fishing to settle a net
(At Batticaloa)

Pulling a net that set last night
(At Kalmunai)

And pulling the boat out from sea

Taking all the jelly fishes that were caught in the net

It seemed it was a large catch but actually it was all jelly fish
What they got was just this much of fish

After they got fish, they started cleaning
They were little bit disappointed by the result

Morning fisherman, net fishing

West coast near Colombo

I walked the beach many many times 

Most of the people here is Sinhalese

My impression of them are little bit cool and strict than Tamil people

But they were nice to me too

Great dad

Coming back from night fishing

Exporting fish tank
These beautiful fishes are going to be exported to Japan, China and around the world
I did not know that fishes that I see in pet shop have such a journey
There were many beautiful fishes

Fisher man who came to sell fish

Evening work