literally another aussie in london

Perahera

Perahera is a festival in Kandy to celebrate the fact that Buddha had a tooth and that Kandy has that tooth.

It might not sound that exciting, but Kandy adds Elephants, lots and lots of fully blinged up Elephants.

What you end up with is a few kids dancing, some fire twirling, and hours and hours of Elephants.

We must have been sitting out there for almost 5 hours in total.

Others stood in the rain.

Some watched from Pizza Hut.

But, it was a long haul.

Also, for Perahera, there is no alcohol permitted.

Now, I get that for religion’s sake alcohol sometimes gets the shaft, but if you are going to ask me me to be in my chair 90 minutes before an event and then have it start late, I think we should relax on the whole drinking thing.

But, Perahera was cool, plus I got to eat a late night buffet afterwards, which is always nice.

So here are the photos of blinged up elephants, teeth and fire.

The rain as we waited undercover.

While waiting for it to start I was taking hundreds of pictures of the guys selling the bright toys.

Then the fire twirlers came out.

Then the elephants came out.

And there were also some dancers.

The whole album is here.

Perahera is definitely an event, although I would suggest that you eat a pizza hut meal while they are being offered earlier in the night, as those Elephants move fucking slowly, and our event had over a hundred, I believe other perahera events have more.

And when you get hungry you start to abuse the slow moving elephants.

September 22, 2010 Posted by Jrod | sri lanka | perahera | Leave a Comment