Today we started the day with breakfast at 8 am, and we were going to the Dalada Maligava tooth relic temple here in Kandy. Here we got to experience the Duruthu Full Moon Poyaday with the locals. The reason the temple has the name it has is because it is said that the tooth of Buddha is located inside the temple. The group were also wearing white so symbolize purity and walked barefoot as a sign of respect. We got to visit different rooms in the temple, and see how the locals were celebrating the holiday. They were also bringing flowers and gifts to honor Buddha. In one of the rooms it was a taxidermy elephant, because it had served the temple for 40 years, and was seen as a royal elephant. 🐘🪷
Later we walked to a vegetable market where they sold different varieties of vegetables and fruit. After that the we free to do as we wanted. 🛺
We ended the day with a dinner together as a group, and had a quiz about Sri Lanka, sports, history, politics and geography. 🪫
