'Fire-walking', 'Muthumari Amman Temple, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Spreading the hot embers.

The entrance side with milk in a rectangular shaped ditch.

The Idol of the Diety - 'Muthumari Amman' - looking over the performance.

The start of the fire-walking by a devotee.

The fire-walking.

Dipping the feet in a mixture of cow-dung and saffron after the fire-walking.

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Colour, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Wild flowers, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Clay figures of a threshing site, Buthpitiya, Sri Lanka.

On the road from Wathurugama to Gampaha, I saw these life-like clay figures of a threshing floor, in the centre of a paddy field.

Monkeys at a plant nursery, Meepe, Sri Lanka.

'Chedil Kaavady' (Fish-hook Kaavady), Avissawala, Sri Lanka.

In this type of 'Kaavady' fish hooks are inserted to the skin of the back and held together by a strong rope. The ;Kaavady' dancer carried a decorated 'Kaavady' - 'Kaavu+Thady' T - and danced his way on the streets preceding the 'Ther', in a 'Ther' festival.

Sights on the pavement during the 'Ther' festival, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'Hot Ulundhu and Masaala vadai' for sale on the pavement.

Brass-ware for sale on the pavement.