Hi Guys !
As you already know .. I'm on a trip to Kandy with my family and today is the third day of the trip. So I'm writing my 12 #thediarygame post about a interesting place I visited today and what I saw and learnt. okey friends .. Today I visited the Raja Museum in Kandy. So this museum is located inside the "Temple of tooth" Kandy.
The great Raja tusker
This Raja Museum is a very different place and I haven't seen something like this , a museum for a animal in #srilanka.
Raja or this great tusker, is a very sacred and honored elephant in sri lanka who carried the "Tooth Relic" in "The temple of tooth" Casket for more than fifty years. Actually this animal is very important to sri lankans and Raja tusker is honored as a national thresher by sri lankan government. So as a honor Daladha Maligawa management created this museum i preserving the dead Raja elephant's skin. Amazingly this preserved body looks very real and this museum of one of the top place you should visit when you visit the " Temple of tooth " in Kandy.
Raja tusker attending a Perehara event
Raja elephant or Raja of Maligawa was born in the year of 1913 and Raja tusker passed away in the year of 1988. During it's 75 years life time .. Raja tusker served 50 years to the " Temple of tooth" Kandy. As I mentioned before this Raja prestige elephant was a property of Temple of the tooth in Kandy. The main duty of Raja tusker is to participate "Esala Perehara" event which is held annually. In the year of 1986 , this Raja tusker was named as a national thresher of sri lanka by the president J.R. Jayewardana.
Raja tusker with president J.R. Jayewardana
Raja tusker with president Ranasinghe Preamadhasa
Raja tusker in 1983
We spend lot of time in the museum. It;s not a large museum. It;s in a small hall .. but there is lot of things to learn and watch. There is a very significant photo collection which shows almost all the life event of tusker Raja. And the preserved body of tusker Raja is in a well sealed glass box and temperature is controlled using coolers.
So this was my day. And we spend more time in "Temple of tooth" spending few hours and it was very worthy.
Okey guys let's meet from then next diary post.
Thank you
This is a most memorable place and we can discover recent history from there.
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Yeah.. exactly.
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I have been visited there a lot of times. 🙂 Actually it was so amazing museum which is dedicated for the giant tusker Raja 🐘
Have a safe journey!!
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Yes true .. It's an amazing place
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Thank you
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The conservation of the elephant and the care they had for it is really amazing. I love the family trip to that place, my wife has always dreamed of doing that type of trip to help children or people in other places.
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I have visited that place several times. That place is amazing. There are lot of things to learn.
It looks you had a great time in Kandy.
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