The Esala Perahera festival honoring the sacred tooth of Buddha is the largest and longest festival in Asia. For ten days the tooth relic is paraded through the city streets atop an elephant to the accompaniment of drums and dancing. Kandy, Sri Lanka

Author: Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 33.3 Mpixels (95.3 MB uncompressed) - 7070x4713 pixels (23.5x15.7 in / 59.9x39.9 cm at 300 ppi)

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