19th Feb 07 - Madhu Ganga River, Galle, Sri Lanka

A full day trip through the mangroves.

Fast boat across the lake

Many of the boats had been destroyed in the tsunami and were replaced by funds raised overseas. In this case by Ernst & Young, Ireland.

Prawn fishing

Bamboo barriers across the river trap the prawns

This looked a particularly hard way to fish!

Through the mangroves

Cormorant

I thought these were also to do with catching fish. But was told they were "sleep huts".

Water Monitors

We visited a Buddhist temple on an island

The saffron priest robes

This young priest, with the Buddhist Bible, was just 13. He told me, in the most perfect English, that he would spend a year in the temple.

Then lunch in the midst of the mangroves!

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