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Yala National Park
The gateway to Yala National Park is Tissamaharama. A 20 km drive via Kirinda takes the visitors to the Palatupana. At Palatupana, the well-designed visitor center provides the information to the tourists and assign a tracker to all incoming vehicles. The park provides jeeps with soft tops which gives the opportunitiy to view wildlife, bordering the Indian Ocean. The number of mammals recorded at ...
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Sigiriya Lion Rock - The 8th Wonder of the Ancient World
According to the inscriptions found in the caves which honeycomb the base of the rock fortress, Sigiriya served as a place of religious retreat as far back as the third century BC, when Buddhist monks established refuge in the locale. It wasn’t until the fifth century AD, however, that Sigiriya rose briefly to supremacy in Sri Lanka, following the power struggle which succeeded the reign of ...
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Dambulla Golden Rock Temple Complex
Sri Lanka has many cave temples but the Dambulla Cave Temple (aka Golden Rock Temple of Dambulla, Rangiri Dambulu Viharaya, Dambulu Raja Maha Viharaya), is the most venerated, celebrated and most probably the most visited.The cave complex that consists of the five viharas has a spectacular setting on a massive rock, some 1118 ft. above sea level and surrounded by the plains of ...
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