TOP PLACES TO VISIT IN CENTRAL PROVINCE SRI LANKA

• Sigiriya ; Sinhagiri (8th Wonder of the World)

 

Location – Dambulla

Matale Disrict

Central Province 

Sri Lanka

 

• • This is one of the most Stunning Place in Sri Lanka  
  • Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress   

• Historical and Archaeological Significant Place

• • King Kashyapa selected this place as new capital

• UNESCO declared Sigiriya as the 8th Wonder of the World

 

BY Vising Experience of Hiking 

Get to know about History

Amazing Architecture

Frescoes and Mirror wall

 

Significant features 

 

• Mirror Wall 

 

• This wall was so highly polished that the king could see himself whilst he walked alongside it.
• People of all types wrote on the wall, on varying subjects such as love, irony and experiences of all sorts. 
• Writing on mirror wall now has been banned for the protection of the old writings
• Senarath Paranavithana deciphered 685 verses written on the mirror wall 

     

 

 

• Frescoes 

 

• Western face of the rock has covered by the paintings
• The area is 140 meters long and 40 meters high 
• There are references in the graffiti to 500 ladies in these paintings 
• But, most of them are lost forever 
• These frescoes are classified as in the Anuradhapura Period 
• There are various ideas about the identity of the ladies in the frescoes 
• Some believe that they are the ladies of the kings 
• Others think that they are women taking part in religious observances 
• Pictures have a close resemblance to paintings seen in the Ajantha Caves in India.  

 

 

•  Water Gardens

 

• The Water Gardens are built symmetrically on an east-west axis.
• They are connected with the outer moat

 

 

•  Sinhapadaya  

• Boulder Gardens

 

• Terraced Gardens