Sri Lanka, June 23 -- This year's Kandy Esala Perahera Festival will commence on July 25 with the traditional Kap Situweema (planting of the ceremonial jak tree branch) at the four main devalayas - ...

Dancers perform during a procession celebrating the Esala Perahera festival in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 10, 2024. The Esala Perahera, one of the grandest Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, is observed ...

Kandy comes alive during the month of August as the historic ‘Esala Perahera’, one of the oldest and grandest Cultural Festivals in Sri Lanka, perhaps, in the world, takes to the streets on 30th July, ...

The Sri Dalada Perahera (pageant) or Esala Perahera which parades the streets of Kandy for ten nights is preceded by many age-old customs and rituals. The first on August 5, was the ‘kap situweema’ ...

A “perpetual fire-laughing motion among the slow shuffle of elephants”: this is what D.H. Lawrence once said about Sri Lanka’s Esala Perahera, the nation’s biggest and one of the world’s oldest ...

The 2025 Annual Esala Perahera of the Yudaganawa Raja Maha Viharaya in Buttala concluded on Saturday. Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was ppresent when the final Randoli Perahera took to the ...

One of the biggest religious festivals in Ceylon is Esala Perahera, held each year for centuries in honor of the tooth of Buddha, which is enshrined in Kandy, Ceylon. While the densely packed pilgrims ...