The town is renowned for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sigiriya Rock Fortress, a formidable landmark rising 1,200 feet ...

Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya has been crowned the world’s most welcoming city for 2025 by Booking.com, based on over 360 million of ...

The ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a marvel of ancient engineering and ...

The surrounding gardens of Sigiriya are also a marvel in itself and are among the oldest landscaped gardens in the world.

Taking in verdant tea country and historic stations, the island’s railway network makes for a perfect way to explore ...

Famous for its ancient cave temple complex ... Just 20 kilometers northeast of Dambulla, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Sigiriya Rock Fortress awaits for an adventurous day trip.

The ant-march of tourists up the “Lion Rock” – home to the remnants of a 5th century palace built by a Sri Lankan king with a penchant for patricide – was proof that, two years after political unrest ...

Sigiriya rock fortress (Photo ... Over the next two days, I visited the Unesco World Heritage Sites of Dambulla Cave Temples – where 157 ornate golden Buddha statues and colourful murals ...

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On the edge of the Kumtag Desert, the Mogao Caves—there are some 500 of them—are carved ... Located atop an outcropping known as Lion’s Rock, Sigiriya is an abandoned fortress that overlooks the plain ...