The pair of Kingfishers. Male on the left & female on the right.

SRI LANKA PHOTOS

If you find tropical Jak Fruit. Try them.
As you may never see them again.

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Photographs Sri Lanka

STREETS

Jak Fruit For Sale on the Kurunegala to

Dambulla Road, Sri Lanka.

S ri Lanka has a diverse topography creating numerous micro-climates. Most, if not all, fruits are seasonal and come into season only once a year.

Each specialist food-producing area sprouts roadside stalls when the local produce is in season.

These Jak Fruit are one of the largest fruits in the world and so heavy they grow straight out of the tree’s trunk or the larger branches.

Many travellers pull over, because, when you see them, you have to buy them, as you never know when you will see the same fruits, or vegetables again.

The green corrugated shops on the other side of the road sell hot, fresh corn-on-the-cob, when it is in season too.

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Policeman directing traffic with a pink whistle. Gregory’s Road, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo.

Pink Whistle.

S ri Lankan Police wear Dark Khaki uniforms with a black hat. To the foreign eye they may look like military uniforms, but they are not. Traffic Police have white bands on their hats, white belts and, sometimes prominent white gloves, with a red STOP circle painted on the palms. They are busiest during school traffic times, as seen here, near the secular DS Senanayake College on Gregory’s Road, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo 7.

This all-boy school has over 6000 students, with an academic staff of more than 275. The main government schools in Colombo are all-girl or all-boy. Outside Colombo they are mostly mixed girl & boy schools. The school has a Buddhist Temple, a Hindu Kovil, a Mosque and a Catholic Shrine on the premises.

Just inside the main entrance is a memorial to the 8 boy’s and a coach of the School Baseball team, killed by a LTTE female suicide-bomber on Platform 3 of the Colombo Fort Main Railway Station, on the 3rd of February 2008.

Click on any of the smaller photographs below, to enlarge the image and see the caption.

Rural Lane at Elephant Corridor Hotel, near Sigiriya Rock Fortress. Central Province, Sri Lanka.

Young couples on Galle Face Green, Colombo. Looking North.

THe Lord Buddha Statue at Viharamahadevi Park, with extra decorations for Vesak, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.

Down by the shore of Tissa Wewa (a Man-made Reservoir) built by Devanampiya Tissa (3rd Century BC) to improve the water supply to his capital city of Anuradhapura.

7 three-wheelers, 6 motorbikes, 2 dogs, 2 bicycles and a roadside stall on the last stretch of the Galle Road, nr. Galle, Southern Sri Lanka.

A Stupa and a lorry at dawn, the corner of Gregory's Road and Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Between the Sea and the Galle Face Green Heliport, at the start of the Galle Road, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The end of the Galle Road. The 1938 Lighthouse at the Old Dutch Fort, Galle Fort, Southern Sri Lanka.

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Young and old residents of Warwick Gardens High-grown Tea Estate, Ambewela, Sri Lanka.

Tea Estate Children & Elders.

S ri Lanka is densely populated. The majority of its people are not wealthy, live in rural areas, and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Numerous microclimates make Sri Lanka a delightfully scenic, small island country. Home to many ethnic groups with a diverse cultural heritage, Sri Lanka has so much to see. The only person in this photograph wearing shoes is the boy in his school uniform.