The temple was huge with so much to see. You could spend a whole day there and still not see everything.
Some of the art was incredible.
Sri Lanka – Colombo – Buddhist Temple Gangaramaya – Elephants
Elephants seemed to be venerated. It seemed strange to me. Inside the temple there was a big Elephants head and huge stuffed elephant.
Outside, in a tiny pen, they had a young elephant chained up so that it could hardly move. It seemed a very unbuddhist type of thing to do.
The poor elephant looked half-crazed and was exhibiting all manner of disturbed behaviour.
Sri Lanka – Colombo – Buddhist Temple Gangaramaya
Our next port of call was the Buddhist temple of Gangaramaya.
Outside the florists sold their flowers as offerings.
Inside it was like a museum of porcelain Buddhas.
The wood carvings on the panelling were delightful.
The monks were very friendly.
Like most Buddhist temples, it had a serene feel to it – though this was far busier than many I have been to.
Sri Lanka – Colombo – The Hindu Temple
Sri Lanka – Some shots from around Colombo – people and buildings.
Sri Lanka – the abuse of animals.
Unfortunately, animals are used all over the world are used as tourist bait. People pay good money to be photographed with monkeys and snakes, elephants and all manner of exotic animals.
Some of these animals are kept in terrible conditions, caged and bored to death.
The snakes often have their fangs pulled out.
Wild animals are caught and abused.
