Our day in Kandy started in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya originally founded in 1371. They are magnificent with lots of mature trees and long avenues of palms.
Royal Botanic Gardens
Sri Lanka is aiming to be clean and green and it is working.
I think this is Cannonball Couroupita Guianensis
Lotus in flower on one of the lakes
The monkeys were not too much of a nuisance
The orchids were stunning.
Next stop the Central Market and spices were much in evidence.
New Zealand apples strung up individually
Lots of vegetables
Here is an expert to help improve your selfies
Girls making traditional batik.
I had plenty of helpers to choose a length of batik, but in the end I came away empty handed.
Sunset at the end of another good day.
What a vibrant market, and beautiful gardens. You are seeing it all in style.
ReplyDeleteIt all looks wonderful. Your cannonball tree is the same tree Jenni saw flowering in Cambodia. I'd never seen it before, now twice in one week!
ReplyDeleteThe monkeys look like they have just had their hair combed.