The Cultural Triangle

Located in the Northern dry zone, the cultural triangle is famed for it’s UNSECO designated world heritage sites, among these are well preserved scattered ruins of palaces and temples of Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura, the unique cave temples of Dambulla and the Rock Fortress Sigiriya.

Sigiriya
A palace in the sky once abode to an illustrious king and his heavenly maidens. Intricate water gardens, a mirror wall and celestial frescos are among sites to subsume on the ascent, once at the summit the breath-taking view of the jungles will leave an euphoric imprint in the mind’s eye of the perceiver.

Anuradhapura
The foremost capital of ancient Sri Lanka, also considered as the birth place of Sinhala civilization is home to a multitude of world-renowned Buddhist monuments including symbolic stupas enshrining relics of Lord Buddha and the sacred and primeval tree grown from a sapling of the bo tree – Sri Maha Bodhi, under which the most venerated master attained enlightment. Thus fascinating sites of such character are to be embraced on a visit to this sanctified land.

Polonnaruwa
Finely preserved medieval capital in an era by gone has bequeathed some of the islands finest monuments where skillfully sculptured Buddha statues, ornate moonstones and breathtaking stone carvings are found in abundance.

Dambulla
Famed Cave temples which house Buddhist art, fascinating statues and an impressive array of murals, is also surrounded by spectacular terrains. At its base rests the golden temple symbolic for the Golden hued Buddha sculpture on the crest. The museum below with an impressive aperture portraying an open mouth of a lion, exhibits Buddha sculptures from a far and wide.