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Petta Masjid

Mosque in the Petta area . - Pettah is famous for its shopping stores in narrow bylanes

Kandy botanical garden

Kandy botanical garden

Kandy lake atop the hill

Kandy botanical garden

Kandy botanical garden

Mr . Irfan in yellow with goggles

Spectacular gems for sale in Kandy

Another view of the lake on top of the hill in Kandy

Toys being sold on the beach ( sea -face ) - Galle Road - on the oppostite side are the best 5 star hotels in Colombo - Holiday Inn

The Buddhist temple that houses the tooth-relic ( revered by Buddhists wold-wide )

Irfan - in the background you see the entrace to the famous stupa - a buddhist piligrimage center - Kandy in Srilanka houses the world famous Buddha's tooth

This mosque in Wellawetta - wetta in Sinhalese means road - for example there is also a Justice Akbar Wetta

This picute of a deer wandering about in a park in Galle - close to the Galle fort

As we were heading to Galle - the maximum destruction occured here .

This is a mosque in Kandy - kandy is about 200 km from Colombo - you could travel by train or by bus

some of the finesh gems in the world are sourced from Sri Lanka . - what you see are the emralds in one of the gem stores of Kandy

The seas of Colombo were still unsettled even after 3 months

Park in Kandy - similar to the Ooty park - botanical garden

Candy

Mr Irfan in the usual compsed state of mind . In the background you can see the Holiday Inn International chain

Budget Restaurant on Galle rd

Autos are painted red, imported from India - Bajaj make - this was near the Galle Sea front - posh beach front close to multi-star hotels

ON the Galle Road ( pronounced as Gol ) . In the background you can see the Galadari buildings and the Cylone Bank buildings

reclining on the Galle Fort - this was largely destroyed by the Tsunami

At a restaurant in Colombo close to the Galle Sea Face

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