Polonnaruwa Hotels

... of Sri Lankan civilisation.  This area is often known as the cultural triangle with the main 3 triangle points being Kandy, Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura.  Dambulla Cave Temples The Dambulla caves date back to the 1st century BC as a place of ...

... ” in Sri Lanka refers to the triangle shape that is made on the map when visiting the ancient cities of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya, and Dambulla, as well as the 'hill country’ city of Kandy, all of which are UNESCO World Heritage ...

... Rock. If we had to choose to visit only one of the old capitals, we would probably have chosen Polonnaruwa over Anuradhapura. Polonnaruwa had some more interesting architecture, and it also tended to have less “reconstructions” done.  ...

... that of the earlier capitals.  The real Cultural Triangle lies some distance north of Kandy, with its angles at Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Dambulla, and is better described by its traditional name of the Rajarata, or "The King's Land".  ...

... injured elephants, such as those from land mines in the civil war, are brought here to be cared for) and then heading to Polonnaruwa, Sigirya, Dambulla Cave Temples and Eco Park over the course of two days. Along the way we learned much about Buddhism and ...

... through coconut and rubber plantations and rice paddies.   I've visited Kandy four times and enjoyed each visit. Like Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura before it, Kandy was a capitol city of the kingdoms of Sri Lanka, the last ...

... me as a city. After the bad experience with housing I started to book rooms (no dorms here) in advance by phone. To Polonnaruwa, another former royal capital, I arrived in the evening. I was lucky as in the adjacent village was that night held an annual ...

Kandy ist die dritte heilige Stadt auf Sri Lanka. Polonnaruwa, die zweite Königsstadt, behagte den Singhalesischen Königen nicht sehr. Sie suchten eine Reihe anderer Möglichkeiten (eine Zeitlang auch in Kotte, das jetzt als "Sri Jayewardenepura" ...

The road from Polonnaruwa was surprisingly new. Compared to the roads we had been traveling on, the A11 was was in superb shape, and allowed us to travel much faster (got up to even 60km/hour). However, about half way to Trincomalee, we ran into road ...

... views from the rock were nice and Claire had a great time photographing the monkeys that lined the route up to the caves. Polonnaruwa This is an ancient capital of one of Sri Lanka's earlier kingdoms and we devoted a full half day to sightseeing ...