Hindu festival

One evening we went to Hindu festival

Spices & food

We had some very tasty spicy Indian food

my dinner

A beautiful meal

These were the spices they cooked with

So colourful

Indian clothes

Daddy had some shirts made

The colours were very bight and beautiful.

all the women wore Sari's

Papaya

JJ our Indian friend cut the papaya fruit down from the tree

then peeled it for me  

and ate it, it was so yummy!!!

Fresh fish

A man in a restaurant cooked this fish for us! 

There was a lot of fresh fish to choose from.

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Washing our clothes

Indian families do not use washing machines, they wash their clothes by hand.

Next to the river using a stone.

We washed our clothes by hand too. This is Daddy and i hanging it out on the line.

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South India (Kerala)

Ayurvedic treatments

Kerala is famous for Ayurvedic medicine

Ayurveda, which means the science of life (Ayur = Life, Veda = Science), ayurveda is an ancient medical science which was developed in India thousands of years ago.

Mummy tried the treatment and had a massage.....

We arrive in India

From Sri Lanka to india takes just one our by plane, there is no other way to get here!!

India has the second biggest population in the world 2.27 billion

Hindu is the largest religion in India, 80% of India people are Hindus

The capital of India is Delhi

Saying good by to my friends in Sri Lanka

Saying good by to my friends in Sri Lanka

My Friends that I met in Sril Lanka

Sri Lanka is full of wonderful people, I made some lovely friends

My ukulele

Learning the ukulele.

My day at School in Sri Lanka

I stayed in a Guest house in a town called Tengalle in Southern Sri Lanka, there was a boy called Tinet who lived there, my mum asked Tinets dad if I could go to school with him for a day, Tinets dad arranged it with the school.

In Sri Lanka the school day starts at 7.30am and finishes at 1.30pm

The class I went to was class 3 and there were 49 children in the class.

They go to school Monday to Friday, in year 9 they go on Saturdays also.

We did maths, it was very hard.

The teacher had a long stick on her desk, we were all very good!

Buddhist Rock Temple

70% of Sri Lankans are Buddhists, there are a lots of temples.

The Rock temple that we visited is just one of many mystical temples found in Sri Lanka.

Inside this huge rock there are caves, the buddhists have made it a temple, there are 7 rooms with huge Buddhas lying down, the walls and ceilings are all painted, the paintings protect and show  stories about the Buddhist belief. 

Tabitha

This is the huge Iguana we found on our way to see the fishermen.

Things we bump into on our walks in Sri Lanka

It's amazing what you find when your out for a walk in Sri Lanka

Here is a sea snake that we found on the beach

This is a colourful bird that we call a Kingfisher (also found in England) 

You often see cows on the beach

This is a huge fruit bat asleep on a telephone wire

Here is a 3 foot long Iguana