Published: 08:02 PM,Feb 09,2017 | EDITED : 01:05 AM,May 02,2024
CLEANLINESS DRIVE: A Sri Lankan mahout washes his elephant ahead of a religious procession in Colombo on Thursday. Some 70 elephants, most of them from the central part of Sri Lanka, together with thousands of traditional drummers, dancers and monks are gathering in the capital to participate in the city’s biggest two-day annual Buddhist procession on February 9 and 10, which was first held in 1979. — AFP