Next day I
decided to walk along the beach, as some of the members of our group of artists
Meeting welcoming
people, offering me a cup of tea, and other possible services ,
Meeting a local
boat driver offering me a lake drive, but luckilly I asked about price and
decided to visit just a temple
very close to the lake,
which has huge sitting buddha inside the shrine, and gorgeous sculptures
in the corridor, depicting the scenes from the Buddha’s life. On top of all the
beutifull position near the lake gives to the place amazing atmosphere.
Morakala GangaramaTemple |
jatakas |
naturalistic sculptures, suprisingly powerful |
As I was there alone, I felt like in a film, and enjoyed the paintings outside the temple, and later walked through kind of jungle village, just observing the quiet life of the local people and their beautiful, simple houses with colourful textiles…
Back on the main
Colombo-Galle road, just walked
few hundred metres, meeting the junction, observed the shops, buses and daily
life.
Just across the
railway there was another Temple, and inside the resting Buddha, quite long, an again peaceful atmosphere, It
was only later- I got to know, there were some hundreds??? of people escaping the Tsunami wave, and thanks to the position of the temple on the rock, they rescued
their lives.
Kumarakanda Maha Viharya- place which recued thousand people |
KumarakandaMaha Viharaya-resting Buddha, 6m long |
Buddha under the bodhi tree |
door panel with sinhalese inscriptions |
Later I decided to explore the destination bit further and I walked all the way till the Siri Khettarama Maha
Viharaya temple, some 3km inside the jungle..
also visited amazing wood mill with really simple equipment, but beutiful colours and dimensins of the wood:
I got to know,
that they are preparing the temple for a festival which is going to happen
during coming week. So they painted walls shiny white, and some sort of reparation took place.
Inside the shrine
was a devotee, singing beautiful prayers, so I could not resist to record part
of his singing.
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