Word: perahera
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...tens, then in hundreds - came to the Minneriya Tank (one of Sri Lanka's major reservoirs) to drink, bathe and play. There are plenty of tame and tethered elephants in Sri Lanka - just the previous night in Kandy , we had seen 80 of them paraded at the Kandy Perahera, the country's biggest religious festival. But nothing beats the sight of the behemoths in their natural state. The beasts at Minneriya knew neither the mahouts' steely prods nor the tourists' flashbulbs. Instead, we were the guests - and not particularly welcome ones. As we headed out of the park at dusk...
...There are plenty of tame and tethered elephants in Sri Lanka?just the previous night in Kandy, we had seen 80 of them paraded at the Kandy Perahera, the country's biggest religious festival...
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