Galle is almost on the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka. It is famous for its fort that had been built by the Portuguese way back in the 16th century, and then, later, taken over by the Dutch. Signs of the Dutch occupation is still very pronounced in the premises of […]
Habarana to Kandy is just about 100km apart, and we should have completed the journey in about 3 hours. Well, it took us the whole day! Yes, we stopped at various places during the drive…not that we minded them. However, in our lust to see and experience it all along […]
We went to the Dambulla Cave Temple on our way from Habarana to Kandy. It is another of those temples that is located on top of a rock that required climbing for about 15-20 minutes. Surprisingly, despite having trekked all the way up to Sigiriya (Read: Tour of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka) the previous evening, our legs weren’t […]
The Sigiriya rock, perhaps, is the mascot of Sri Lanka. It is a UNESCO heritage site, and certainly, one of the most visited in Sri Lanka. You see its photographs everywhere in the country, starting from the immigration section of the airport. We had scheduled our Sigiriya tour for the […]