No, it’s not a strange Sri Lankan religious festival, but a description of our painful day at Kataragama …

Kataragama is a place of worship and pilgrimage for Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians. It’s a huge complex of beautiful temples, mosques and stupas. As a sign of respect, all shoes are removed at the entrance – hence the cause of our burning feet. After several hours of walking on baking sand and hot stones, running from one patch of shade to another, we could take no more and retreated to our bus.

Unfortunately, two of us (one me) had to use the public toilets barefoot !!! I can’t even begin to describe the experience, nor could I bring myself to take a photo. I will leave it up to your imagination.