Kandy Esela Perahera

Kandy Esela Perahera

Kandy is also the venue of the Esela Perahera, easily the most colourful pageant of Asia, held in July/ August each year, for ten days in honour of the Tooth Relic. As the pageantry of the Esela Perahera unfolds through ten nights each year, the city takes on the air of a torch-lit dreamland, complete with a hundred or more colourfully caparisoned elephants,drummers and dancers and chieftains in the rare colourful trappings of the old kingdom. A stunning spectacle of piety and grandeur tourism attraction in Sri Lanka.