The Kandy’s focal point is, without doubt, The Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth Relic), Where the sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha is enshrined. Highlight of the year is the Kandy Esala Perahera, when a replica of the relic casket is paraded in the streets, accompanied by exotically-costumed dancers, drummers and anything from eighty to a hundred gaily-caparisoned elephants, for ten glittering festival nights. This is held in Kandy in July-August months each year.