1) The Heritance Ahungalla hotel in Sri Lanka held several activities to celebrate Vesak and Sri Sambuddatva Jayanthi 2600, including a religious sermon for staff and an interdepartmental creative Vesak lantern competition between staff members. 2) Events included a perehera procession of staff and guests to light a pandol depicting the Buddha, distributing drinks to passersby, and a decorated vehicle singing devotional songs in the vicinity. 3) The day's activities began at 7:00pm with the perehera and lighting of the pandol, and included the lantern competition judging and students singing bakthi gee at the hotel lobby.