Con­sists of nine arch­es, built entire­ly of sol­id rock — a mix­ture of stone and brick with­out the use of steel. The he…

The site of a pas­sen­ger train derail­ment caused by a tsuna­mi wave.

A mon­u­ment at the site of the 2004 tsuna­mi-hit pas­sen­ger train derail­ment.

A sacred pil­grim­age site for 22 cen­turies, this cave monastery, with its five sanc­tu­ar­ies, is the largest, best-prese…

Lion Rock. In the last quar­ter of the 5th cen­tu­ry AD, King Kashya­pa built an impreg­nable fortress and his palace on t…

A Roman Catholic church with basil­i­ca sta­tus. The church is home to the ven­er­at­ed stat­ue of Our Lady of Lan­ka.

Sri Lanka‘s high­lands are sit­u­at­ed in the south-cen­tral part of the island. The prop­er­ty com­pris­es the Peak Wildernes…

This sacred Bud­dhist site, pop­u­lar­ly known as the city of Senkada­gala­pu­ra, was the last cap­i­tal of the Sin­hala kings …

Area: 63,799999 sq. km., vol­ume: 949,79999 cubic meters, depth avg: 14,9 m, shore length: 150,7 m, res time: 478,7999…

Area: 23,290001 sq. km., vol­ume: 127,3 cubic meters, depth avg: 5,5 m, shore length: 48,34 m, res time: 41,299999, el…

Polon­naruwa was the sec­ond cap­i­tal of Sri Lan­ka after the destruc­tion of Anu­rad­ha­pu­ra in 993. It com­pris­es, besides t…

Found­ed in the 16th cen­tu­ry by the Por­tuguese, Galle reached the height of its devel­op­ment in the 18th cen­tu­ry, befor…

This sacred city was estab­lished around a cut­ting from the ‘tree of enlight­en­ment‘, the Buddha‘s fig tree, brought th…

The Nation­al Zoo­log­i­cal Gar­dens in Sri Lan­ka began its oper­a­tions in 1936. The gov­ern­ment took over the 11 acres of l…

The name of the light­house, built on the south­ern point of the island, is trans­lat­ed as “the city of the gods”, and t…

Locat­ed with­in the ancient walls of Galle Fort, the light­house of the same name has pro­tect­ed and the sur­round­ing wat…

One of the must-do things in Sri Lan­ka is to climb the Lion Rock. 660 ft tall and 1500 years old, the ruins on top of…

Let me take you back in time, to a time 32,000 years back when ancient man walked the earth and when life was clos­er …

One of the most scenic view­points in Sri Lan­ka, the Lipton’s seat is a high­light of the vis­it to the hill coun­try in …

The nation­al park fea­tures a diverse ecosys­tem that includes mon­soon forests, dry mon­soon forests, thorn forests, mar…