Amazing Sri Lanka

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:16

  Pubs along the beach

  

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:24

  The earthquake in Aceh on 26th December 2005 brought tsunami across Asia including Sri Lanka. Although the hardest hit was in the South along Galle area, there are traces of the damage along here too.

   

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:28

  A damaged becon that is suppose to direct the fishermen to their home.

  

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:34

  This little huts on the rocky outcrops is a temple with Hindu gods, Buddhist images and Christian crosses build by the local villagers after the tsunami to pray for their safety

  

   

  

• LOTUSfairy

  2 Oct 08, 18:36

  7-11.. i am super impressed by your pics and write ups...

  very detailed....

   

  *bows*

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:40

  That's me standing right on the Indian Ocean

  

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:40

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  7-11.. i am super impressed by your pics and write ups...

  very detailed....

   

  *bows*

   paiseh.....we had a companion who is also the author of the traveller's guide we were using

   

   

• LOTUSfairy

  2 Oct 08, 18:41

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  That's me standing right on the Indian Ocean

  

  
  win liao..

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:46

  A flag lowering ceremony by the Sri Lankan navy

  

• xXBlack_RebelXx

  2 Oct 08, 18:53

  Yes alot of hot Singhalese women there. I hear they love South Indian cock?

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 18:54

  Ok...now for the food.....

  

  Our first original Sri Lankan food. This is call popur. It taste like putu mayam. We eat this with curries, lentail and fried coconut. In fact the best food was from a village homecook meal. As the villagers did not have any fridge, all the food were cooked and eaten immediately. You could taste the fragrance of the firewood from the milk rice and the bananas pluck right from the tree.

   

  

• LOTUSfairy

  2 Oct 08, 18:55

  food very plain leh..

  if i go there, sure lose weight one..

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 19:16

  Our seafood dinner at Mount Lavina

  

  Lemon fried mullet

  

  Sri Lankan style chilli crabs

  

  Sri Lankan style steam crabs

  

  Butter Sotong

  

  Steam Prawns

  Notice  the crabs shells missing, the sotong head missing, the prawns head missing and the fish head missing too? Maybe fatum is right! They have kept the best part to themself.

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 19:23

  Our street fare

  

  Sri Lankan had a habit of eating their food cold. Therefore we were very cautious in what we ate. However the food poisoning was from a posh hotel

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 19:27

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  Kandy - Temple of the Tooth

  The original temple of the tooth is a 2 storey wooden structure sitting on beautifully carved stone column. Stone columns were being used because Sri Lanka is a very forested area and to prevent termites from destorying the foundation. The first storey is where the original relic is kept and the 2nd storey is a prayer hall

   

  

  Offering were often made to the tooth. Can the clever readers guess what is one of the offering made to the tooth?

  OK, that all for the photos.....now, to answer all the riddles

  TOOTHBRUSH! did you get it right?

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 19:33

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  For these Pansakulika site, other than the mysterious paved path and the roundabout, no stupas or temple or images was ever found. These could be related to their practice of "back to the forest movement". However, there's a stone that be found on the platform that has elaborate craving decoration, sometime of lions like this one here.

  So, my intellegent reader, can you guess what this stone slab is? I'll give you an answer later.

  

  This is a urinal stone!!! I guess you didn't get it. The 2 rectangle is a foot pedestal and the top circle is where you put a bowl of water for washing.

   

• SevenEleven

  2 Oct 08, 19:36

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  Here's another riddle. Why do you think there are so may holes on this rock?

  

  To give you a clue, see the next picture

  

  
  During the ancient time, there was no tools to cut the rocks. So what they did was to knock some holes on the rock, put some wood into them, set fire to the wood. When the rock becomes red hot, they poured cold water onto them and the rock will split into two.

• Lin Yu

  13 Oct 08, 22:09

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  A beautiful reflection on the lake at the foot of Lion Rock

  

  wow...lovely picture

    

• Lin Yu

  13 Oct 08, 22:11

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  Further ascending the rock, you come to a terrace where a huge crouching lion made of bricks sat on the terrace. In between the lion feet is a flight of stairs that went thru the lion mouth. Unfortunately, the lion had areadly collasped but the peom on the mirror wall describing lion must have been very impressive

  "Having climbed Sigiriya to have a look

  I was contented just seeing His Lordship the Lion

  After that I had no interest to see

  The golden-eyed ones on the cliff" 

  

   

  Where the lion head once stood

  

  
  like the spinix in cleopatra

• Lin Yu

  13 Oct 08, 22:13

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  Watching the sun down over a coconut juice in the comfort of Galle Face Cafe

  

  beautiful