Our first stop today was at a Hindu temple, Seetha Amman Hindu Temple, a colorful temple right on the side of the road. Mehmet asked our local guide to track down the resident priest we had seen earlier, who agreed to come up and let us photograph him.  The priest was very handsome and charismatic, […]

We passed briefly through Nuwara Elija, stopping first at a Buddhist temple, where we watched a priest bless offerings of the worshippers (center). A stop at two tea plantations gave us a chance to see premium Sri Lankan tea being harvested. Our most interesting stop of the day was at a tiny village, for a […]

We returned to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic before dawn to capture the blue hour, and the colors of the temple just as the sun was rising (upper-left and lower-right).  We then entered the temple to photograph the morning prayer ceremony.  As we were leaving, we noticed some women dressed to welcome a […]

We started today with a stop at the golden temple of Dambulla.  Throughout Sri Lanka are huge statues of Buddha, but this is easily one of the largest, as seen above.  To the right, there appears to be a long line of monks walking in a line to give offerings to Buddha.  Upon closer inspection […]

We drove most of yesterday, enroute to Habarana. Our first stop was the fishing town of Negomo, where they dry fish on the beach. We spent a couple hours watching the colorful fishing boats (top row), the men hauling in the catch and dumping it on bamboo carpets (bottom-left), and the workers organizing them to […]

NOTE: Starting with the Thailand trip just completed, I have begun limiting each “photo story block” to only seven images.  A few years ago, I was using eleven, but received feedback that the images were too small.  I have since been using nine-photo blocks.  Some people have commented that they read this block on small […]