When all feels down in the world, there is nothing like a bit of travel and admiration for the grand scheme of things and ...

The 2025 historic Kandy Esala Perahera Festival concluded yesterday (09), with the Day Perahera. The four Devale Peraheras proceeded to the Getambe Diya Kapana Thota to perform the water-cutting ...

Sri Lankan firedancers perform outside the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth, as they take part in a procession during the Esala Perahera festival in Kandy on August 24, 2010. The festival features a ...

The traditional ceremony to inform the Head of the State on the successful completion of the historic Kandy Esala Perahera was held on Saturday at the President’s House in Kandy. This year’s Esala ...

Perahera is unique and has a very long history in this country. When we hear the word, “procession”, the image that comes to our minds is a group of people walking in a row carrying sacred objects, ...

A nation cannot choose its path to future development by abandoning its heritage and culture - President The ‘Sannasa’ (scroll) informing the successful completion of the annual Kandy Esala Maha ...

The final Randoli Perahera of the annual Esala Perahera festival of the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy paraded through the streets yesterday evening (08), witnessed by thousands of spectators, ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka -- It is August, and I have arrived in Kandy, Sri Lanka, to witness the Kandy Esala Perahera, one of the world's oldest and most grandiose cultural processions. This annual event, ...

The performances of the ‘Kandyan Dancers’ in their traditional costumes are an eye catching item in the Kandy Esala Perahera The ‘Esala Maha Perahera’ of Kandy – the historic pageant of the hill ...

The tusker, “Indira Raja ", a gift by former Premier of India Indra Ghandi to the Sri Dalada Malgawa was chosen to carry the sacred tooth relic on the first day of the Kandy Esala Kumbal Perheara ...

A total of 62 dental surgeons will be joining the health service of of Sri Lanka on Monday, December 29.