10. Carved & Painted Wooden Furniture
Workshops in Kandy have lovely wooden furniture and sculptures. At the workshop, I visited there were lovely chests with colorful paintings on them. Most of these workshops ship across the world, so it should not be too difficult to get them home.
11. Sri Lankan Paintings
You can also buy colorful Sri Lankan paintings that have a very bright color and yet clean look. Most of them depict mythological scenes including royal processions and epic characters.
Sri Lankan Paintings reminded me of Tambekar Wada Walls.
12. Cinnamon Tree Bowls
You can buy a lot of wooden bowls, but these white and cinnamon colored bowls with very fine polish look beautiful and unique. The shopkeeper told me that it is made with the just of cinnamon tree – basically the inner part of the tree after removing the bark that we use as a spice.
I think the presence of Cinnamon makes these bowls an interesting Sri Lankan Souvenir.
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