A Temple made famous by my friend Kevin Roy’s Monkey Photo
Ever since one of my best friends Kevin Roy took this picture some years back at the Mulkirigala Temple, I have always wanted to go….
Nicknamed “Spock” this monkey has had been an inside joke among some of my group of photography friends from Cairo for a long time.
The temple itself is an ancient Buddhist Temple. It has been built on a 675 foot natural high rock, surrounded with another four rocks. It has numerous paintings inside on the walls and of course laying Buddha statues in the different parts. On the top of the rock is a beautiful little Buddhist shrine with a Priest that blesses you and it has a great panorama view of the entire area with the endless jungles.
Of course the reason why I went here was not exactly for the temple, but was to see the monkeys!!!! Only found in Sri Lanka, the Toque Macaque monkeys have an interesting face and different hairdos. I had fun photographing them not just here, but all over the island. I just wish they would get out in the sun more and stay a little still as they were mostly in the shade…
