Inside a Sri Lankan Home
There are lots of different types of homes in Sri Lanka. Some are small bungalows like these below.
The roof from the outside.
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The roof from the inside.
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Dung is plastered onto the wattle. When it dries it looks like this. The dung insulates the house and keeps termites at bay.
This woman is preparing vegetables:
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This is how the coconut is scraped out of the coconut shell: |
A quern is used to mill flour. |
Cooking is done in a small kitchen.
There are elephants in the area so the farmer sleeps in a tree house at night. This is what the bedroom looks like.
These are pictures of the farm:
On the farm a lot of work is done by hand in the traditional way. This is how the husk is separated from the grain.
The people of Sri Lanka use all the parts of the coconut and palm plants to make what they need.
Palm leaves woven to make mats and partition walls.
On farms Indian bulls are often used to pull carts.
In the past they were even used to transport people.