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THE WORLD HERITAGE SITES OF SRI LANKA-By Everyman SIGIRIYA – THE CITADEL IN THE SKY Source:Island From patricide to a palace. From intrigue to ignominy. From paintings to poems. From pleasure gardens to a playboy king. Sigiriya has it all. Archaeology, history, controversy and folklore are entwined and enmeshed in the unfolding of the story of Sigiriya. Sigiriya or ‘Sinhagiri‘ – ‘Lion Rock’ derives its name from the huge rock carved lion located on a small plateau on the Northern side of the rock. Over the decades the top part of this lion has fallen apart and today only the two mammoth front paws are visible forming an entrance between them. The rock itself is the remains of hardened lava which would have pushed through the ground surface causing a volcanic eruption. According to geologists this could have happened over two billion years ago. Around Sigiriya there still can be ...
Australian travel and tour operators arrive on 10-day familiarisation visit Source: Daily Mirror Australian travel and tour operators at Bandaranaike International Airport welcomed by SLTPB Tourist Information Centre officers including SLTPB Assistant Director Chami Lanka Gasnawage and SLTPB officer-in-charge of Australian market At Sigiriya A team of 18 Australian travel and tour operators arrived in Sri Lanka on a 10-day familiarisation tour hosted by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB). Tourist arrivals from Australia have shown a steady increase in recent months and it is envisioned that the familiarisation tour would capitalise on this wave of interest. Over 4000 tourists had arrived from Australia to Sri Lanka, mostly by air, during June this year. The tour operators prior to the familiarisation tour had cited that tourists from Australia were particularly interested in the cultural triangle, beaches down south and exploring both Kandy and Nuwara Eliya. This customised tour will ...
Jul 22, 2019
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7 Days in Sri Lanka Vlog | Sigiriya, Kandy, Dambulla, Galle, Unawatuna, Colombo ...
Oct 11, 2018
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“SIGIRIYA” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ An unforgettable experience of mine, in a bygone era, was.meeting and chatting with a rather elderly Bddhist Monk, on the rock that was called Mihintale. I have been extremely lucky in meeting some highly intelligent people during my life, but this particular Monk, whose name unfortunately eludes.me now, was perhaps one of the most amazing, well-spoken, educated people that I was fortunate to spend some time with. He spoke perfect English, while most of the other Monks around him could only converse in Sinhala. He spoke to me about the Buddhist Religon, about the “culture” of Ceylon, as it was known then, and one of the topics we spoke about was another “rock” that rose abruptly from the Plain, the Sinhalese call “SIGIRIYA”, the Lion-Rock, because, hundreds of years ago, it’s crest was carved to look like a huge lion, at the ...
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