Kandy Esala Perahara 2013, Thai and Japanese Princesses viewed the final Randoli Perahara of the Kandy Esala Perhara.

The period July-August is the Esala Perahera season in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese term ‘perahera’ means a train of musicians, dancers, acrobats and other performers usually accompanied by a number of caparisoned elephants parading the streets in celebration of a religious or secular person or event. 

During this period Esala Peraheras are held in many Buddhist places of worship around the country. Among these the annual Esala Perahera in Kandy occupies the foremost place because the Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, the palladium of the Sinhalese kingdom that was, is located in that city, which was its last capital.