Cobras and teeth

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Whilst visiting Sri Lanka I had the chance to visit the Golden Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka’s second city. The temple is where the tooth of the holy Lord Buddha is held within a casket, inside a room, within a room accessed down a corridor.

You do not get to see any of that unless you are a monk of the temple or very lucky. Guess I am in category two there then. As I entered the temple the door to the corridor swung open at the exact time that all the other doors were opened. Literally for a couple of seconds there it was, in the centre of a room, the casket containing one of the holiest of all religious relics. And then as suddenly the doors were swiftly closed like dominoes falling and as people scurried past oblivios to the event I smiled big and wide at what I had seen.

I headed back outside into the sun after enjoying the rest of the temple and took a drink break down by a snake charmer. Seriously cool watching this cobra rise up from it’s basket and I grabbed my smartphone to take a pic. Possibly not the brightest idea I had as it attracted the snakes attention and as I looked down the lens all I saw was this cobra mouth rapidly approaching my camera, and therefore me! As I jumped back this car pulled in behind me and I actually barrel rolled over this guys bonnet whilst going into fits of nervous laughter. I looked back to see the charmer had caught the snake by the tail and had sent it back into a trance with a sharp tap to the back of it’s head.

Some days you just get double lucky and I certainly think that was one of those days for me!