This blog is devoted to exploring the 'NATURAL BEAUTY OF SRI LANKA. My interests are photography, archaeology and ancient history. My email address is:- philipv203@gmail.com Please move the cursor over each photograph and left click on the mouse, to see an enlarged version of the pictures. Please click on the heading 'older post. ' Kandyan dancerrs, Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Please BOOKMARK this page.
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| Abandoned house at Idaikkaadu near the Thondamanaru Lagoon at the Atchuvely end. |
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| The barrage and sluice gates near Selvachchannithy. |
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| Front of the Selvachchannithy temple dedicated to Lord Murugan. |
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| A cat taking a nap on a tree at Selvachchannithy. |
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| Roadside shop at Chunnakam. |
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| Palmyra leaf products at the Chunnakam Market. |
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| Deep well at Nilavarai on the Chunnakam - Puththur road. This well which could never be pumped dry of fresh water provides pipe-borne water to the area upto Atchuvely. |
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| Brass tray from the Middle East. |
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| A glass-bottomed beer-mug presented to one on retirement from the British Army. |
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| A cigarette lighter from China. |
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| Ice cream parlour, Nallur. |
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| A brass plate with designs from the tombs of the Pharoes, most probably bought at Aden or Port Said during the sea voyage to Europe in the 1930s to 1970s. |
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| A portable betel-chew grinder popular in the 1950s in Jaffna, One placed the betel leaves, arecanut and lime inside the container. There was a rod with a flange at the tip going into the container. This was used to grind the chew. It was a precious item for the aged who had lost their teeth and could not masticate the betel chew. The ground chew of betel could be easily swallowed. |
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| School children in their uniforms. |
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| Painted Storks. |
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| Cattle wading through water to reach greener grass. |
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| Cormorants drying out. |
