Perahera Buddhist festival procession. Elephant wearing decorative batik cloth.

Perahera Buddhist festival. Traditional drummer.

Esala Perahera festival parade with decorated elephant carrying replica of the golden relic casket containing Buddhas tooth.

Esala Perahera festival parade drummer.

Vendors and open fronted stall with display of flowers vegetables and spices.

Women planting rice seedlings in terraced paddy near Kandy.

Working elephant with handlers on road near Kandy.

Sri Lanka, Kandy, Portrait of young man dressed for Kandy Esala Perahera, Procession to honour sacred tooth ehshrined in the Dalada Maligawa Temple of the Tooth.

The Esala Perahera honouring the sacred Buddhist tooth relic of Kandy. The Maligawa Tusker elephant carries a replica of the golden relic casket.Perahera means procession.

Temple of the Tooth aka Dalada Maligawa. View over river toward the Buddhist Temple

Kandy Dancers in movement blur

Women in full costume performing