In the afternoon we went to a Temple, which was up 1000 steps first. Those steps were unpleasant since we have yet to get used to the humidity and heat! The temple was cool though, it holds the longest reclining Buddha in south Asia. See more about it here. Ashika told us a bit about the place which was interesting. I don’t know a great deal about Buddhism so it will be interesting to learn about it whilst in a primarily Buddhist country.
For example there was a pond with a statue in it, and it is okay to take a photograph of the statue, or to take a photograph of someone with it but only if they are standing alongside the Buddha, but not if they have their back to it.
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| the statue was so long even my wide angle camera lens struggled to fit it all in! |
The statue is in the process of getting repaired so you can see some scaffolding etc in the photo. That also meant that our donation (so many places in Sri Lanka don't charge for entry but instead a donation is expected) went towards repair costs. The people standing next to the statue further down also show the scale of it! The temple was rather impressive with lots of colours, statues and patterns. Needless to say I am definitely going to find it difficult to choose just a few photos to upload onto here and Facebook!
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