This is an excerpt of our journey in Sri Lanka starting 23rd Dec, '07. As you can see, people at Lanka are very friendly, especially when our group includes children at five and eight.
All temples, dagabas and ruins in Anuradhapura are over 2,000 years, AND, are well kept. People have to enter these premises on bare feet. Imagine for yourself the feels when you walk on coarse sand under bright sun at a temperature over 30C in the afternoon.
Buddhist statues in Lanka are very colorful and when staying inside any shrine room for a couple more minutes, visitors will all, without exception, find themselves the inner world of peacefulness. People bring only flowers to offer, and burn oil lamps outside of the shrine rooms, praying respect to our Lord Buddha and likely, for a better next-life. No incense, no smokes, no noisy and lousy tourists and merchants, the feel is very different from that in China.
Above pictures captured our visit at the Sri Maha Bodhi, the oldest living plant on earth since 2BC, and other temples in Anuradhapura, the first capital of Sri Lanka.
More will come. Stay tuned...
