Majestic beasts of Kandy Esala Pageant

Once again it’s the time of the year where elephants and tuskers dressed up in glittering attire parade the streets of the Kandyan Kingdom. A season when hundreds of thousands of spectators from every corner of the country throng to witness a grand pageant of the olden days, which continues to date. And it is the moment where the majestic beasts of the king’s era carry the golden casket of the most revered sacred tooth relic at the historic Kandy Esala Perahera.