Hello my dear friends. I am @sandimal from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. I am happy to meet you all by this contest. I would like to offer my gratitude to @benoitblanc for taking me to this contest. So guys let's go to see my trip story.

This was a sunday. It was a holy day because of the weekend. On that day early in the morning my brother told me that there is a temple which is a branch of Mahameuna monastry. But in here still the constructions are ongoing. Because it has started before 2 years ago. The special thing there was, we can see the live construction of the wood carvings on those days. As an art lover I wanted to see those from my own eyes. So I decided to go there with my brother.

After finishing the breakfast we started our journey. We went there by my scooter. It was not a long journey because that place was in the corner of my district. So it took only 45 minutes from my home to that place by the scooter. When we reached there we could see the carpenters has started the works. So I was full of happy to see those works.

_{The Buddha mandir}

It was full of wood carvings inside the "Buddha Mandir"(place where the statues of Lord Buddha's placed). We could see the carpenters has put there maximum effort to make it beautiful Because of the utmost devotion to the lord Buddha. They were using valuable woods like Teak, Sandalwood, Mahogni to make these carvings. These are some of the carvings I could captured from my mobile phone camera.

_{Carving of Elephant}

_{Carving of Vines}

_{Carving of the Peacock}

The special thing there I saw was the roof of that Buddha Mandir also made with wood carvings. Here you can see how it's beauty.

_{Carving of Lotus}

As in every Mahameuna monastry this place also has it's own peaceful, calm and quiet surrounding to meditation for there devotees. The monks who are accomodated there are very friendly with people and they are giving instructions to the people for meditation.

Before end my words I would like to invite all travellers to visit any of Mahameuna monastry branch if you visit Sri Lanka. There you can see all the above things from your own eyes. Because there are many things worth seeing there. With that invitation I am going to end my post. Thank you all for reading my post🙏.