I was at the Bellanvilla temple last night, photographing the perahara when I got a chance to take this photograph of two elephants being brought to the temple premises. Yesterday was the second day so there weren’t many elephants taking part. It’s usually on the third day that most elephants arrive for the perahara. So I’m off again to hopefully get some photographs of elephants.
Balloon sellers at the Bellanwila temple grounds preparing for the perahara.
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Nadungama Raja with his mahout Kaluputha.
Photographed at the Bellanwila Temple while preparing for the Bellanwila perahara.
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These photographs were taken at the Bellanwila temple a couple of weeks back while most of the elephants were being bathed in preparation for the perahara.
A mahout scrubs down his elephant.
A young mahout and his elephant.
A mahout.
People living next to the temple climb onto their walls to take a look at the elephants.
A young elephant, taking part in the perahara.
This elephant was misbehaving, so the mahouts had to punish it buy tying it up in a pretty uncomfortable position. One of the mahouts’ who was talking to us was saying that its extremely important to show the elephant that the mahout is always in total control, else it’ll just kill him.
A lady feeds an elephant.
Kalunbanda the mahout ties up his elephant.
