Locals Gather For Annual Cinnamon Festival

HIKKADUWA,SRI LANKA- DECEMBER 20 : Sri Lankan dancers dressed in traditional costume perform and Buddhist monk looks as they take part in a cinnamon festival parade during the annual cinnamon offering festival on December 20, 2014 in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan south province cinnamon farmers, oil distillations plant owners and peelers take part in the parade carrying cinnamon quills, seedlings and leaves from their harvest, to offer at the Seenigama temple dedicated to the God Devol, as thanks for a good harvest and to keep safe their land from a natural disaster. Over 400 acres of cinnamon cultivated land were destroyed or damaged in the tsunami disaster of 2004 which has its 10th anniversary on December 26. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)