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A young girl waiting for her band to play during a youth conference.
SA-SRL-05-00241.tif		 Children marching to protest child labor.
SA-SRL-05-01018.tif		 A musician at a local drum and band festival.
SA-SRL-05-00704, rev.tif		 Children waiting to perform a dance at a youth conference.
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A colleague of Christina's got married, and we were invited to the wedding. Here the bride and groom sign their wedding license.
DSCF0322.tif		 Tea plants in the mountains of Sri Lanka.
SA-SRL-05-01437.tif		 A gerbera daisy.
NA-FLW-05-00007.tif		 The inside of a lotus flower, the national flower of Sri Lanka.
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Also a lotus flower.
NA-FLW-05-00167.tif		 I don't know the name of this flower.
NA-FLW-05-00141.tif		 The inside of a Fangi Panni flower.
NA-FLW-05-00234, rev.tif		 I don't know the name of this flower either, but I like it!
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For the Perahera festival in the town of Kandy, people wait many hours to save a seat.
DSCF2961.tif		 Decorated elephants in the Perahera festival. The festival lasts ten days. On the last day there are over 200 elephants in the final parade.
DSCF3281.tif		 Fire handlers in the Perahera festival.
DSCF3016.tif		 Drummers in the Perahera festival.
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A dancer in the Perahera festival.
DSCF3277.tif		 Fire handler in the Perahera festival.
DSCF3286.tif		 Ceiling colors in the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3342-1.tif		 Flowers at the Temple of the Tooth.
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Flowers at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3361.tif		 Flowers at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3375.tif		 Candles at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3381.tif		 A Buddha statue at the Temple of the Tooth.
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A display at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3418.tif		 A Buddha statue at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3393.tif		 A Buddha statues at the Temple of the Tooth.
DSCF3401.tif		 When people go into the Temple of the Tooth, they often buy flowers from a flower vendor (like this man) to bring into the temple.
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Sunset over the Indian Ocean.
DSC_0309.tif		 Three-wheelers, also called "tuk-tuks," are an easy way to get around Sri Lanka.
DSCF2981.tif		 Thousand-year old ruins in the town of Pollonaruwa.
DSCF3575.tif		 Buddhas at a temple on the lake near our apartment.
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Buddhas at a temple on the lake near our apartment.
DSCF3454, BW.tif		 Buddhas at a temple on the lake near our apartment.
DSCF3493-1, BW.tif		 Buddhas at a temple on the lake near our apartment.
DSCF3504.tif		 A gentleman in the town of Pollonaruwa.
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