Banda (human) and Menike (pachyderm)
English class at Diyagama Temple
The Mahout’s lean-to at the Elephant Bath
The caves at Dambbulla
A friendly lawn-cobra
The author with his first guru, Ven, D.W. Pemarathana
English class at Kalugalla Temple
This was rebel-held territory in 2002
Crescent Bay Beach in Tangal
Hirashne
Guyarthri and Tejan the servant’s boy
Hangin’ at Kalugalla Temple
Bamboo forest, Kandy Botanical Gardens
On the road to Kegalle from the back of a tuk-tuk
Festival dancers in Randeniya. The only reason I could get a shot of these girls looking away was because someone else was photographing them at the same time.
The little river that flows through the Elephant Bath
I climbed Kalugalla Rock!!
Volunteer crew, Millennium Elephant Foundation, summer 2002
Novice monks ritualistically begging one spoonful of rice from devotees
Neighborhood Fruit Bats
Must-see in Sri Lanka: a perahara
The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy, Sri Lanka
A red-peckered macaque
The Big Guy
Three old ladies having lunch, Pinnewalla Elephant Orphanage
My bunkies at Sri Bodhiraja Temple, 2003
Karly Stribling, 21, paints a mural with her buddy Emily Adams, Bodhiraja Temple
Baby eliya in the rain, Pinnewalla Elephant Orphanage
Horsing around at Bodhiraja International College and Preschool
Baby elephants at Udewalawa National Park
Erotic frescos, concubines, ancient. Kinda sexy.
My friend Umpala, the tuk-tuk driver. He gave me free rides because I “help the children”
My second guru, Ven. Omalpe Sobhita Thero
All photographs by Gerald Stribling, Emily Adams, and Karly Morris
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