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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

In Mannar


In Mannar you have many layers of cultures with their own styles of  arcitecture 


The colonial style

The Portuguese-Dutch fort







The Catholic stile

The Lonely Planet author entering the church

The big brother is watching you

That picture I dedicate to Obe. The facade of the oldest Catholic church.



The Hindu way



Contemporary secular architecture

A fancy house

Another fancy one


A fancy fence - not that rich people to build a fancy house but at least rich enough to erect a fancy fence


Not that fancy fence... but to compensate that - the fancy gate


Bit worn but still of style


Worn but at least concrete...


...as only the poorest have the palm fence


But as a matter of fact the palm fence, especially palmyrah fence is probably the most beautiful one


The same fence in closer look
 http://tauri-au.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-01-11T10:40:00-08:00&max-results=7
Here some more pictures of nice natural fences

Palmyrah forest at Keeri beach - the place where the fences come from

Seldom you can spot some indications to the war fought recently

But what is hidden behind all those high fences?

The answer: the Banana bloom



The life in Mannar villages

The village which name Mirjam could not pronounce, far less I can write 

Talaimannar

Men's work

Women's work

Talaimannar beach

Monday, April 7, 2014

About the Jeremy O'Mannar


 Jeremy's modest kitchen

 Jeremy's modest hat :D



Another field trip

 On the banks of the Giant's tank

 In the calm water of the Giant's tank

 The Dutch lighthouse

 ...or being more correct - what is left of it. Unique thing.

Another baobab tree, a small on this time

Always aiming high


DL's volunteers

Queen

 She is a queen as well :)

Another well chosen volunteer


Some more little pits

 What do you think who loves donkeys the most in Mannar

The rabbit proof fence

 Mannar Guesthouse Directory

Jeremy's hard working team

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ALL MY RELATIONS


About my Tamil freinds :)


The biggest resource of the whole Sri Lanka (not only in Mannar) and the very core of my good memories is the people. Thanks my brothers and sisters



My Mannar kudumbam

A hard worker

Another hard worker

Everybody in Mannar is a hard worker

Will be a hard worker



The very favourite of mine amongst all of the woman in Mannar
The love comes through the stomach :D



Karnan's brothers wedding


The Hindu wedding


The bonnie bride


The ceiling roofing the wedding place



Intercultural associations:
Same, same but different

Australian Dreaming - Aborigine girl

Majuren's family - Tamil dreaming D

Faces looking similar similar, aren't they



Donkeys

The donkey - for me the donkey is with no doubt the symbol icon of Mannar (not the Mannar fort)

Few people do like donkeys
many people are like donkeys

In Estonia messy children are lovingly called piglets, in Lanka they are donkeys (kalluday; burro)


The black sheep - the only black donkey I ever saw


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With special regards to Karnan: the very first time this blog ONLY ENGLISH (no Estonia language)

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ALL MY LOVE