Kandy Esala Perahera is also known as the month of the festival, which is celebrated grandly among many local Buddhist and also foreign tourists, this glittering event is being celebrated over 236 years every Esala month in August. Kandy Esala Peraherais done to honor the Sacred Tooth Relic which is kept in the Sri Dalada Maligawa.
There are thousands of tourists who come down just to experience this colorful event, it has won so many hearts of the tourists, a British poet and a famous novelist D.H Lawrence described the event “perpetual fire-laughing motion among the slow shuffle of elephants”
Ten days prior, the king of the Sri Dalada Maligawa sent a man dressed in an impressively beautiful manner in royal robes and on a decorated large elephant. The man goes around the virtual village and announce to the public “Behold, ten days after this, Lord Buddha’s Tooth will be brought forth, and taken to the Abhayagiri Viharaya. Let all could be monks or laymen, who wish to gather merit for themselves, make the road smooth and in good condition, grandly attractive lanes and by-ways, and provide an great quantity store of flowers and incense to be used as offerings to it”
