The centerpiece, according to Prof. Seneviratne, is the glass-topped model of Sigiriya with water gardens and all, giving a bird’s eye view of its grandeur. About the museum The Sigiriya Museum and ...

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

As my foot touched the last, the view around Sigiriya Rock opened itself to me: unspoilt scenery that you could see for miles, with nothing around except for the flickering of a gold Buddha in the ...

However, ICOMOS Sri Lanka was involved. The UNESCO Reactive Monitoring Mission found that the proposed extension of the Sigiriya airport to serve as the principal base for fighter jets would undermine ...

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 ...

Sigiriya or Lion Rock is a 180-meter-high column of reddish-colored rock near Dambulla where King Kassapa (around 477 AD) wanted to build his new capital. The landscape all around Sigiriya is flat ...

Last year, there were reports that the giant bee hives of Sigiriya had been removed by authorities using various chemicals or local exorcism rites, or shanthi karma. A series of bee attacks on ...

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

Booking.com, one of the world’s leading online travel platforms has named Sigiriya as the World’s Most Welcoming City in 2025. Sigiriya has topped Booking.com’s annual Traveller Review Awards list of ...

The map below shows the location of Kandy 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 ...