In the heat of of the afternoon sun women prepare fish for market on Negombo beach in the west of Sri Lanka. Working in temperatures in the high thirties they have to contend with the smell of the catch and ever present scavenging crows.
A young Elephant plays with the remains of a root from a tree in Udawalawe National Park in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
The Jetavaranama Dagoba Stupa, undergoing continual maintenance at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. The Jetavanaramaya is a stupa, or Buddhist reliquary monument, located in the ruins of Jetavana monastery in the world heritage city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. At 122 metres (400 ft) it was the world's tallest stupa and the third tallest structure in the world when it was built by King Mahasena of Anuradhapura.
