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Dambulla Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dambulla, Sri Lanka
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Dambulla Caves
This is a top pick! Today we are up at 7.30am and head off to Dambulla Cave temples. It's an hour's drive and we pay the 500rs as it's not included in the triangle ticket. It's another climbing day and we tackle winding paths and lots of steps, but it's well worth the hike ...
Lost in Antiquity
This is a top pick! ... paintings of Lord Buddha. It is a remarkably peaceful environment, save for the mangy monkeys chattering loudly outside the caves. Dambulla was the highlight of our day. Following the cave temples we made a quick stop at Sigiriya, an enormous rock ...
Cave Buddhas
This is a top pick! ... that effectively said your running and climbing days are finished. I only mention this because one of the most important sites in Sri Lanka is the Rock Fortress of Sigiriya and the climb is almost mandatory. Sigiriya is not a particularly long climb but ...
Rebel Country
This is a top pick! ... he reached for a pen "call Mr. Siva, he will help you." Mr. Siva worked for the ICRC, an International body in Sri Lanka responsible for ensuring that both sides of the conflict conducted their warfare in accordance to the Geneva convention. He was in ...
Where is everyone???
This is a top pick! 10th October With only 2 weeks in Sri Lanka we needed to keep moving quickly in order to see as much as possible. 2 days in Anuradhapura had been enough and we needed to move on. Our next port of call was the final point of the cultural triangle, ...
Cave Temples and Monkey Madness
This is a top pick! Damulla is the largest and best preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka. The rock towers 160 m over the surrounding plains.There are more than 80 documented caves in the surrounding area. The major attractions are spread over 5 caves, which contain ...
Rooms with a View
... After a further stop to briefly tour some spice gardens we arrived at the dusty little town of Dambulla, famous for its remarkable cave temples, one of Sri Lanka's outstanding man-made attractions. The cave temples are cut out of an enormous granite ...
Dambulla
... garden, we were given a tour of the spice garden with lots of information on the all the commonly used spices in Indian cooking. After some shopping of the various spice oils and balms, we left for Kandy considered to be the hill capital of Sri Lanka. ...
Here Comes The Rain Again
... a morning to lazily bask in the sun within my opulent surrounds, followed by a trip to nearby Sigiriya, one of Sri Lanka's cultural highlights. However, the plans and any feelings of satisfaction and anticipation were washed away by the rain which ...
Everything takes 3 hours!
... and caught up on the blog in a nearby hotel bar (very nice...we couldn't afford to stay there), we headed to Dambulla's star attraction, the cave temples. Unfortunately we arrived late afternoon to find we only had 50 minutes before they closed! Being ...
evening peace vigil in dambulla
After driving through a sunset of fire, night and darkness hugged the land. only because of the darkness did oliver and i notice the hundred twinkling tea lights spread out in neat rows...we didn't see any signs, any temples, anything Grandeur, but we ...
Sri Lanka - first impressions
... cool everything down as we climbed up stone steps, metal stairways and vertigo inducing walkways attached to the rock face. On reaching the top, we were rewarded with magnificent views across Sri Lanka. It's definitely not like England! Jo ...
monkeys & miners
A busy little town with not much to offer the passerby, other than its star attraction, the Golden Rock temple, perched on the side of the main road. We take the walk from the roadside up the rock staircase to the summit buying the customary lotus ...
Dambulla
12 miles south-west of Sigiriya lie the cave temples of Dambulla. The caves date back to the 1st century BC, when King Valagam Bahu took shelter there from the invading army which had driven him out of Anuradhapura. Inside the 5 caves are 48 statues of ...
Cave Temples
... Kandy "bus station", found my bus & took off. $1.20USD and three hours later (and only 72 km down the road) I was in Dambulla. The guide book listed the Royal Rock Temple as a "must see" if you're in the area. The temple is actually ...
Cave Temples and Lion Rock
... the greatness the place once held. Too bad the weather wasn't better. After the long descent, we headed for Dambulla, a cave temple complex from around 1BC filled with Buddha statues (including a 47 ft recling Buddha), wall-to-wall murals ...
Giant squirrels round the infinity pool
The day after new year's day we set out by bus from Kandy to Dambulla. Sri Lankan buses are broadly similar to Indian one's - battle scarred old Tatas and Ashok-Leylands. There seems an even wider variety of people getting on a bus stations after money. ...
Little Dream and other wonders
... , some younger ones accompanied by sari-clad grandmas. A neat pile of maroon-coloured backpacks with the embroidered name “Central College Dambulla” adorned the bottom of the front window. A boy stood near us with his cricket bat. The bus was ...
Sri Lanka Summary
... , sunrise hiking or scuba diving, relaxing on the beach or surfing the waves, you can find a great place to do all the above in Sri Lanka. Traveling: If you plan on traveling around SL, then it's best to hire a driver. I used SL Driver Tours ...
Mihintala
Mihintala is the birthplace of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, and right next to the ancient city Anurandhapura, home of the oldest documented tree in the world--a bodhi tree over 2,000 years old. oliver rented a motorbike, but the night before i was sick with ...
The Natural Fortress
Next stop, Sigiria (meaning "Lion Mountain"): city, palace, and royal gardens ....we also rented a motorbike today, but got a late start and arrived in Sigiria at 11:30 a.m., already too hot to enjoy anything in the sun. We paused to drink fresh ...
Dambulla's exquisite cave temples
... are pools of exquisite lotus next to amazing views of the jungle land below. You certainly don't get such unpopulated, breath-taking (sorry for the clichè) landscape in India like you do in Sri Lanka... ____________ enjoy the photos of ...
Skip to save the soles of your feet
We've now reached Pollanurawa where we expect to continue the cultural side of our visit to Sri Lanka. Very tricky as well, because "old-stone-syndrome" - the problem where an overfeeding of ruins, temples, dagobas, image houses, statues and fountains ...
The Ancient Sites of Sri Lanka
Hi guys, We have just finished a trip round to of the main ancient sites of Sri Lanka. We made our way by bus to Dambulla to see the Buddhist Rock Cave Temples. There were about 6 caves with frescoes, carvings and large buddhas. They were good to ...
No rooms in this Hotel?
... alcatifas variadas, varandas, elevadores trespassados e um jogo de relógios com as horas nos quatro cantos do mundo, geralmente desacertados. No Sri Lanka, só se disser a palavra “rooms” é que é de fiar. E mesmo assim, a ver vamos. Os ...
The cave temples at Dambulla
UNESCO world heritage site #4, and the second of today... the cave temples at Dambulla. Essentially it's 5 or 6 caves halfway up a mountain, all packed with Buddha statues and frescoes, which dates back to at least the 5th century. I guess ...
Ox Cart Ride, Anyone?
We awoke in our most comfy bed and realized it was time to get moving. After a nice breakfast, we met Jagath at the van and headed to the village of Habarana. We met an Ox Cart waiting to take us into the village--an interesting form of transportation to ...
Welcome to Sri Lanka!
... were so exhausted; all any of us wanted to do was shower and get in bed! We had a perfect first adventure day in Sri Lanka. All the kids' fears of staying in this small country evaporated after seeing that like most places, the people are friendly, ...
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