Lanka
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One of the carriages of the fateful Train that was struck by the Tsunami waves on the morning of 26th of December 2004 at Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Except few passengers who manged to escape before the waves, all the 1000+ passengers on board perished during the incident, which is now considered as the worst train disaster in the world. Sign above the right window reads “Reserved for Clergy”. Shot with my old Canon Powershot A 75 (3.2 MP).
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The mountains of Sri Lanka early morning. Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Farmland in the highlands of Sri Lanka. Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Oil on canvas. Capturing the rich tropical greens of the highlands of Sri Lanka.
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Beach hut in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Post box in the Old Dutch Fort, Galle, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Elephant bath time at the Pinnewala elephant orphanage, Sri Lanka. This government run project was created to protect injured and orphaned elephants. Mahouts lead the elephants to the river for their daily bath; otherwise they are free to roam the orphanage grounds. Watching these creatures interact at such close range with no barriers between us was a moving experience. Elephants are large and cumbersome and can be a destructive force to be reckoned with. On this day, there was some jostling and heavy footsteps among the 30 or so heard as they eagerly made their way to the river but once in the water, they made little noise at all and were not bothered by their audience.
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Ancient buddha stature, Dambulla, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Stone Buddha statue, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Young elephants embracing. In Sri Lanka in ancient times the elephant was crown property and harming one was a serious offence. Today there are over 2,000 wild and 300 or so domesticated elephants Sri Lanka. The elephant is still highly regarded and plays a significant role in Sri Lankan culture. Many of the domestic elephants participate in the Perahera festival in Kandy and it is common to share the roadway to Kandy with an elephant and its mahout making their way to the festival days in advance.
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Evening falls in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. A time for many creatures to find the time to rest and reflect on the day. This is another old (1985) Kodachrome, scanned.
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Spices
by Kylie ReidSri Lankans take great pride in their cuisine, often taking hours to prepare mouth-watering and colourful meals. It’s the many different fresh herbs and spices and the methods used to prepare them that makes meals so delicious. Rice is the main staple and is usually eaten in some form with every meal. Sri Lankans seem to be accustomed to travellers slightly lower tolerance towards hot and spicy foods and are able to prepare a milder version of just about anything.
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The plains form a 2,000 metre high plateau and are covered by wild grassland and thick forest. This beautiful national park has an eerie silence to it and comes to a sudden end at Worlds End where the escarpment drops nearly 900 metres straight down. We left the guesthouse at 5.30am to begin our 11-hour hike. This mostly descending hike was torture on the knees and we were put to shame by local farmers who passed us with ease, barefoot and carrying heavy sacks of vegetables and other supplies to their village. A local village family kindly allowed us to rest our weary legs and eat our pack lunch in their one bedroom home. It was no trouble at all to clear out the one and only room for us strangers and make a fresh pot of tea.
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The Sri Lanka leopard…. A recent study has shown that Yala National Park has one of the highest recorded densities of leopards in the world, although this animal is still considered to be endangered. The Wilpattu National Park in Sri Lanka is also known as a good place to watch leopards. Leopards tend to be more readily observed in parts of Sri Lanka than in other countries where they share their habitat with more dominant competitors, such as lions or hyaenas. Like most cats, the Sri Lanka leopard is pragmatic in its choice of diet which can include small mammals, birds, reptiles as well as larger animals. Axis or spotted deer make up the majority of its diet in the dry zone. The animal also preys on sambar, barking deer, wild boar and monkeys. The cat has been known to tackle almost fully grown buffalos. The leopard hunts like other leopards, silently stalking its prey until it is within striking distance where it unleashes a burst of speed to quickly pursue and pounce on its victim. The prey is usually dispatched with a single bite to the throat.
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Elephant humour Asian elephant (Baby) Amazingly, Asian elephants are more closely related to the extinct woolly mammoth than to the African elephant. The elephant’s tusks are elongated teeth (upper incisors) and tend to be smaller in Asian bull elephants than in the African. The four grinding teeth (molars) wear out and are replaced by new teeth from the back of the jaws; the elephant gets through six sets of teeth during its lifetime. Where they live India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia and Southern China / Habitat Mountains and forest What they eat Vegetation, fruit, twigs, small branches, bark and roots IUCN status Endangered ! Image was taken at ZSL Whipsnade zoological wildlife park Bedfordshire England UK
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The Asian Fairy Bluebird, Irena puella, is a medium-sized, arboreal passerine bird. This fairy-bluebird breeds across tropical southern Asia from the Himalayan foothills, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is found in moist hill-forest. Two or three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree. The adult Asian Fairy Bluebird is about 27 cm long. The male has glossy, iridescent blue upperparts, and black underparts and flight feathers. The female and first year male are entirely dull blue-green. The Asian Fairy Bluebird eats fruit, nectar and some insects. Its call is a liquid two note glue-it. Male. The whole upper plumage, the lesser wing-coverts, and the under tail-coverts shining ultramarine-blue with lilac reflections; sides of the head and the whole lower plumage deep black ; greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail black, some of the coverts tipped with blue, and the middle tail-feathers glossed with blue. Female. The whole upper plumage, the lesser wing-coverts, and the lower tail-coverts brownish blue, with the edges of the feathers brighter ; middle tail-feathers and the outer webs of all the others, except the outer pair, like the upper plumage ; remainder of tail dark brown ; primaries and secondaries dark brown ; the greater wing-coverts, primary- coverts, and tertiaries dark brown, with a blue tinge on the outer webs ; sides of the head and whole lower plumage blue, very similar to the upper parts. The young are like the female. The male changes into adult plumage about March, and the change takes place without a moult ; the feathers of the upper parts first become fringed with bright blue ; the tail-coverts next become changed ; the lower plumage takes the longest to change, and young birds may frequently be met with having the lower plumage mixed black and dull blue, hut the upper plumage that of the adult.
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A piece made using the fractalius plugin based on the sunset shot “Into the Light” (taken in Galle, Sri Lanka).
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A fairly common kingfisher in southern Sri Lanka—hangs out on the telephone lines especially in the rice paddy areas and other wet boggy places.
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This little colorful is a winter migrant to Sri Lanka—shy little thing – one of about 6 species found in Sri Lanka.
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Umm… Somewhere in the south coast of Sri Lanka, possibly Unawatuna, not entirely sure though. / Anyhows, stick fishermen who spend the day sitting on sticks and… well, yes, fishing. It’s quite an awesome sight actually… it’s like a ‘forest’ of sticks on the water. And there were a LOT of them! I think it’s a very traditional method of fishing, especially where you have rocks like this creating a calm area in which they can fish. / I also got a very nice wood carving of a stick fisherman, it’s sitting on my desk right now lol / Found this shot after a huge sort through of some old shots from Sri Lanka- and realised that I had missed quite a lot of shots! / Hope you like!
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Kelaniya Buddhist Temple – Sri Lanka. /
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A novice Buddhist nun undertaking five percepts. Shot at Navagamuwa Devalaya on a steamy July morning. /
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The main doorway to the Palle Maala (or Palle Maluwa, the lower chamber) area of the Sri Dalada Maligawa or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This 16th century Buddhist Temple complex (now a World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO) which houses a Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha is one of the most sacred places of veneration for Buddhists around the world. The Temple has sustained damage from multiple bombings in the past. Deadliest among them was a suicide attack carried out by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 25/01/1995. A bomb laden truck was detonated inside the temple premises causing significant damage to the Palle Maala area (claiming the lives of dozens of innocent civilians and injuring scores of others).
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