Outrigger canoe, Kallady, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
Almost all of the photographs were taken by the owner of this blog and are his property.Click on each picture below to see an enlarged view.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Various flowers of Sri Lanka.
The 'Kandyan dancer' orchid.
Orchids
Orchids
A flower found in the wet-zone of Sri Lanka and carried by children in 'Peraharas' of the village temples, crying 'Saadhu, saadhu, mal Perahara'.
this pic. of red flower at the bottom is called "pin-na mal/flowers" by locals. Do add more pic.s of SLankan flowers with their names etc, since there r no decent web sites on SLankan flowers...
Please go to the web-link http://philipv203.blogspot.com/ You will see quite a lot of pictures of flowers found in Sri Lanka. Click on the bottom right hand corner - 'Older postings' in each web-page that you open.
this pic. of red flower at the bottom is called "pin-na mal/flowers" by locals. Do add more pic.s of SLankan flowers with their names etc, since there r no decent web sites on SLankan flowers...
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You will see quite a lot of pictures of flowers found in Sri Lanka.
Click on the bottom right hand corner - 'Older postings' in each web-page that you open.