Sri Lanka: Kandy, Christmas 2016

 We drove from the Nature Reserve up to the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka.  Kandy is on the top of a mountain and we enjoyed driving past waterfalls and little towns.

We ended up stopping for some lunch in Nuwara Eliya, a little town on the mountain.

We even ended up seeing some friends from Dubai along the way.  Ripley was sleeping so we only got a photo at the car.

We also ended up stopping at one of the many tea plantations in Sri Lanka.  It was a beautiful location and we enjoyed some tea and cookies as a snack.

We arrived in Kandy just in time to catch a beautiful sunset across the lake looking toward the city.

A new of Kandy's most famous landmark, the Temple of the Tooth, after dark.

The next morning, we went to the Temple of the Tooth to see the most famous relic that Sri Lanka has, one of the Buddha's teeth.  They have built a huge shrine to house the tooth, which is actually not on display here.  Oh well!  It was still a super cool temple.

The tooth is kept inside the huge wooden room behind curtains.

Lots of beautiful plays to pray.

The outside of the wooden room where the tooth is held.

Exploring the temple.

Outside the temple, we walked around the city of Kandy and I fell in love with these signs advertising local lawyers.

And we loved the cats on the roofs of the buildings.