SIDE TRIP 17: Kirinda, Sri Lanka
A ship in the middle of the street? Whoa. What a strange sight!
It's been five months since the tsunami struck but the scars remain to this day. Once congested settlements are now empty; what's left are slabs of cement that were once floors. Makeshift structures dot the horizon --- wooden planks and corrugated iron sheets that serve as temporary shelters for thousands of families left homeless. People talk of lost lives and livelihoods, helplessness and despair. Yet at the same time, they also talk of hope... displaying the spirit that refuses to buckle under in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
In Sri Lanka, people automatically smile, even at complete strangers. It makes one smile in return. So I know people don't think me silly when they smile while watching me take pictures of the ship that was carried by the waves from the harbor, over a two-storey building, and deposited onto the street where it now rests majestically... a mute testament to the world's greatest disaster in recent memory.
SHIP-ON-STREET: Kirinda, Sri Lanka
KILLER TRAIN: 1800++ passengers died when the tsunami struck the moving train
It's been five months since the tsunami struck but the scars remain to this day. Once congested settlements are now empty; what's left are slabs of cement that were once floors. Makeshift structures dot the horizon --- wooden planks and corrugated iron sheets that serve as temporary shelters for thousands of families left homeless. People talk of lost lives and livelihoods, helplessness and despair. Yet at the same time, they also talk of hope... displaying the spirit that refuses to buckle under in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
In Sri Lanka, people automatically smile, even at complete strangers. It makes one smile in return. So I know people don't think me silly when they smile while watching me take pictures of the ship that was carried by the waves from the harbor, over a two-storey building, and deposited onto the street where it now rests majestically... a mute testament to the world's greatest disaster in recent memory.
SHIP-ON-STREET: Kirinda, Sri Lanka
KILLER TRAIN: 1800++ passengers died when the tsunami struck the moving train
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