Kandy Esala Perahera Festival

The Kandy Esala Perahera festival is underway with special traffic and security arrangements being implemented to manage the event. Authorities are coordinating comprehensive plans for the cultural celebration.

"Special traffic and security plan" is just fancy talk for "yeah, good luck getting anywhere near Kandy for the next three weeks"—might as well declare it a no-go zone and save everyone the fuel money. Pretty sure the only thing moving faster than the actual perahera will be the news articles warning you about traffic before you've even left your house.