Pick up from your hotel in Colombo
& leave for Sigiriya.
Arrive in Sigiriya & have lunch
at Sigiriya Village or similar.Afternoon,
Climb the Rock Fortress of Sigiriya.
Sigiriya, a massive monolith of
red stone rises 600 feet from the
green scrub jungle to accentuate
the lucid blue of the sky. How overpowering,
then, this rock fortress of Sigiriya
must have been when a palace crowned
it 15 centuries ago. At the brief
height of its glory, a flowering
of only 18 years in the late 5th
Century, it was one of the loveliest
royal cities that ever graced the
earth. And today, it is perhaps
the single most remarkable memory
for visitors to Sri Lanka. beautiful
bare-breasted maidens still smile
from incredible fresco paintings.
Surrounding the foot of the rock,
extending for several hundred meters,
are Asia's oldest surviving landscape
gardens, incorporating lovely ponds
around Sigiriya's plinth of fallen
boulders.
Proceed back to Colombo & drop
off at your hotel.