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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.
Author: Michael Yamashita
© Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 34.6 Mpixels (98.9 MB uncompressed) - 7200x4800 pixels (24.0x16.0 in / 61.0x40.6 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: bejeweled elephant, Buddha, celebrate, celebration, celebratory, elephant, Esala Perahera, Esela Perahera, Esela Perahera procession, exterior, festival, Kandy, landscape, outside, page 330, page 331, Silk Road, Sri Lanka, tooth, tooth of the Buddha, Zheng He book
