Esala Mangalaya: Buddha Tooth Ceremonly in Sri Lanka

The hot August night, full of the mixture of smells of spices, sweets, and garbage, is quickly covering the ancient city of Kandy. The streets are overcrowded with people: they stay, sit and lie - on the streets, lamps,  rubbish bins, on top of each other, on the roofs of the ramshackle houses. Sometimes the roofs fall under the weight of the people. We are also sitting on the chairs placed up to one of the roofs at our own risk, and looking forward to what will happen next.