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Boat Trip 1
Description: None
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Boat Trip 2
Description: None
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Temple of the Tooth
Description: Without a doubt, the Sacred Tooth Relic (Dalada) of the Buddha is the most venerated object of worship for Buddhists. Its present house, the Temple of the Tooth Relic (Dalada Maligawa) is considered the foremost sacred place of worship in the Buddhist world.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Kandy
Description: Available historical records suggest that Senkadagalapura (an early name for Kandy) was established by the King Wickramabahu III during the period of his reign from 1357-1374 AD. Some scholars contend that the original name of Kandy was Katubulu Nuwara located near present Watapuluwa.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Tooth Relic Shrine
Description: Located in the Central Courtyard, the Vadahitina Maligawa is commonly known as the Tooth Relic Shrine.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Golden Casket
Description: The tooth relic was brought to Sri Lanka in 4 AD. The ruler of India Guhasiva, was afraid he might lose the war in India and therefore loose the tooth relic. So the the Tooth Relic was sent to Sri Lanka because it was a strong Buddhist country.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Countryside 1
Description: None
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Countryside 2
Description: None
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Flower Garden
Description: The Peradeniya Royal Botanic Gardens are situated at Peradeniya, 6 kilometres from Kandy, on a 'tongue' of land bounded on three sides by the banks of the Mahaweli Ganga.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Palm Avenues
Description: These beautiful Gardens are approximately 62 hectares in size and located at an altitude of 550 metres.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Great Lawn
Description: Efforts were made to establish a botanic garden Sri Lanka, first by the Dutch at Slave Colombo, and then by the British at Kalutara in 1813, before the final transfer to Peradeniya in 1821.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Working
Description: Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is the home for about 60 elephants, out of which many are baby elephants found, abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are being cared, fed and trained by the wildlife authorities.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Mother and Calf
Description: Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is the home for about 60 elephants, out of which many are baby elephants found, abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are being cared, fed and trained by the wildlife authorities.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Bathing 1
Description: The elephants are accompanied to a river close-by for their daily bath.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Bathing 2
Description: The elephants are accompanied to a river close-by for their daily bath.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Bathing 3
Description: The elephants are accompanied to a river close-by for their daily bath.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
The Rock
Description: The Complex consists of the central rock, rising 200 meters above the surrounding plain, and the two rectangular precincts on the East (90 hectares) and the West (40 hectares), surrounded by two moats and three ramparts.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Frescoe Maidens
Description: None
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Garden of the Soul
Description: The garden city and the palace was built by Kasyapa 477 - 495 AD. After Kasyapa's death it was a monastery complex upto about the 14th century.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
View from the top 1
Description: Sigiriya dates back from over 7,000 years ago, through Pre-Historic to Proto-Historic to Early Historic times, then as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 3rd century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the sangha.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
View from the top 2
Description: The summit of the rock is nearly three acres in extent. The outer wall of the palace which is the main building was constructed on the very brink of the precipice.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Plantation 1
Description: Sri Lanka's tea is grouped depending upon the altitude of plantations from sea level; Low grown teas, Mid grown teas and High grown teas. Within these broad categories, the individual plantations with their particular soil, weather patterns and processing, produce teas with individual character and taste.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Plantation 2
Description: Sri Lanka's tea is grouped depending upon the altitude of plantations from sea level; Low grown teas, Mid grown teas and High grown teas. Within these broad categories, the individual plantations with their particular soil, weather patterns and processing, produce teas with individual character and taste.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Plantation 3
Description: Sri Lanka's tea is grouped depending upon the altitude of plantations from sea level; Low grown teas, Mid grown teas and High grown teas. Within these broad categories, the individual plantations with their particular soil, weather patterns and processing, produce teas with individual character and taste.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Plantation 4
Description: Sri Lanka's tea is grouped depending upon the altitude of plantations from sea level; Low grown teas, Mid grown teas and High grown teas. Within these broad categories, the individual plantations with their particular soil, weather patterns and processing, produce teas with individual character and taste.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Plantation 5
Description: Sri Lanka's tea is grouped depending upon the altitude of plantations from sea level; Low grown teas (from sea level up to 600 metres), Mid grown teas (from 600 to 1200 metres above sea level) and High grown teas (grown in the central highlands above 1200 metres). Within these broad categories, the individual plantations with their particular soil, weather patterns and processing, produce teas with individual character and taste.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Picking 1
Description: The pickers only pluck the fresh young shoots consisting of 'two leaves and a bud' (called the flush), from the mature tea bushes.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Picking 2
Description: The pickers only pluck the fresh young shoots consisting of 'two leaves and a bud' (called the flush), from the mature tea bushes.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Processing 1
Description: The leaves are softened by a withering process that reduces moisture content by half and enables them to be rolled.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Processing 2
Description: The dried tea is sorted into different grades by passing it over a series of vibrating screens of different mesh sizes. This results in four grades of tea; Leaf, Broken, Fanning and Dust in descending order of particle size.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
On Safari
Description: Situated 170 km. South East of Colombo the Uda Walawe National Park is approximately 30,821 hectares in size. This Park which lies within the Ratnapura and Monaragala Districts acts as the catchment to the Uda Walawe Reservoir.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Reservoir 1
Description: Uda Walawe is the best park in Sri Lanka to watch and photograph wild elephants. The Park consists of a mixture of scrubland and teak forest.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
Reservoir 2
Description: The park supports approximately five hundred elephants and herds of over 50 individuals are not uncommon, the forest cover is also limited by their de-barking of the trees.
Taken: 1/10/1999
Dimensions: 1695 x 1130
Source: 35mm (Scanned)
