A complex masterpiece of irrigation engineering design, Sigiriya's artfully designed water gardens required structural planning way ahead of its time. Orange sand particles twinkled in the sun as a ...

Here is what you need to know about climbing to Sigiriya, the 200-metre-high city fortress in Sri Lanka Here is what you need to know about climbing to Sigiriya, the 200-metre-high city fortress in ...

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In the central highlands of Sri Lanka, my driver makes a turn on to a small dirt road. Minutes later, he turns again at an unmarked opening in the trees. Moments after that, we find ourselves in a ...

Sigiriya, considered to be one of the most valuable historical monuments in Sri Lanka, has long been renowned as an architectural wonder of urban planning and engineering, and a UNESCO world heritage ...

Visitors take in an expansive view after climbing 1,200 stairs to the top of Sigiriya Sky Fortress near the town of Dambulla in central Sri Lanka. Considered by many to be the most famous tourist ...

Despite missing out on Duran Duran’s peak of popularity, their music videos still left a valuable mark in my consciousness. One of it was their song “Save a Prayer,” shot on location in Sri Lanka, it ...

Sigiriya has been crowned the world’s most welcoming city for 2025 by Booking.com, based on over 360 million of its verified customer reviews. The online travel agency (OTA) named Sigiriya as a ...

Imagine, if you will, a sky-high fortress shrouded in juicy, blood curdling scandal. There is no wonder why UNESCO named the fortress city of Sigiriya one of Sri Lanka’s seven World Heritage Sites.

The map below shows the location of Colombo and Sigiriya. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...