Sri Lanka

Things which strike me most about Sri Lanka:

it is an island :), the wilderness, water all around, wildlife, buddhism, cleanliness, amount of car part shops along the roads (you can buy half a car there if you need one), good driving, colonial legacy, tamil tigers, the 26 year long war, stupas, king coconuts and elephants munching on them, cashews, spice gardens, vegetation, giant bamboos, floods and landslides, jack fruits, leopards, coconut spoons, rice'n'curry, tips and how you HAVE TO pay them, tea plantations and how locals can't buy good tea, temple flowers, 'don't turn your back on Buddha', elephant orphanages, Sigiriya, Galle fort which stood the tsunami while the rest of the city was flooded, coconuts and how sri lankans can make anything out of them, peraheras, sapphires, how tea never grew here before the 19th century, pineapples with salt and chilli - yum!, cinnamon trees, sinhala language with its 58 letters alphabet, sri lankan saris, Buddhas tooth, the rhythms - the drumming and the traditional music, lotuses and violet water lilies, monkeys, hand painted batiks, wood carving, rainbow tree, the landscape - the colour and texture always fascinate and capture me, the grass always seems greener!




DIY :)


fisherman


so good with salt and chilli


adrenaline rush


they are pink, I'm telling you!








a stupa and temple flowers


lying Buddha


Sri Lanka getting flooded, swimming by car


Dambulla


flowers brought to Buddha's tooth relic


yes, those are elephant tusks


and a pot of chilli


Kandy


floods and landslides


in the rain they won't be caught together. rainy day is the best time for unmarried couples


the orchid, which smells like chocolate


cameleon


Nuwara Eliya


where Lipton and Dilmah are born




tea plantations


water buffalos












these are the wild ones :)


see you later?...








Sri Lanka is known as one of the biggest leopard habitats




the streets of Galle






saving the whale






good mix

Photos by Olga & Arek