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For Sri Lanka’s National Day (February 4), Viet Nam News introduces a message from the embassy. When you need less than a day to travel from one end to the other, and yet you can dabble in at least 25 different activities, you know you’ve come to the right place. When you have a past so mighty yet so exciting, with the most vibrant culture that makes falling in love with it as easy as riding a bike; when you can drive into an ocean full of life, catch the freshness spraying from a waterfall hitting the rocks, and hear the birds singing as they build their homes; when every day is a summer romance with sunrise breakfasts and idyllic road trips straight out of a movie; when you can wake up with elephants, play hide and seek with leopards and close your eyes under a sky full of stars; when you can smell fragrant spices cooking in different combinations from every household with age-old treasured recipes; when you feel like everyone around you is family and you’ve run out of words to express how you feel deep inside, and your heart races and warms at the same time- you just know you’ve fallen in love with it all: you know that you have indefinitely fallen for Sri Lanka!

Source: Visit vibrant and diverse Sri Lanka

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A complex masterpiece of irrigation engineering design, Sigiriya’s artfully designed water gardens required structural planning way ahead of its time.

Source: Sigiriya: Sri Lanka’s ancient water gardens

Source: Save a prayer at Sigiriya rock, Sri Lanka ｜ Business Mirror

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention of British archaeologists in the 1800s, who were amazed by its leonine rock art and beautiful frescoes.

Source: The ‘Lion Fortress’ of Sri Lanka was swallowed by the jungle

Should you climb the Sigiriya or Pidurangala Rock? Sonal has climbed both and can compare them. Read this before heading to Sigiriya village in Sri Lanka…

Source: Climbing Sigiriya OR Pidurangala Rock in Sri Lanka – Which One is Better? | Drifter Planet

Sri Lanka – Ancient City of Sigiriya

Dating back to the 5th century, the stone fortress was constructed by King Kasyapa to avoid attacks from his brother Moggallana.

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Sri Lanka – Ancient City of Sigiriya

Day 6: Sunday 10 September – Sigiriya – Dambulla – Kandy

This morning Pam Usher explored Sigiriya, home to the 5th-century UNESCO World Heritage listed Rock…

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Sri Lanka – Ancient City of Sigiriya

This UNESCO World Heritage Site caters to art lovers, history buffs and adrenaline junkies alike…

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Sri Lanka – Ancient City of Sigiriya

In 2003, G Ryan Smith visited Sigiriya while on a field study abroad in grad school. At the time, he was struck by the formal similarities between it and the Renaissance gardens he was learning about in landscape history classes, despite Sigiriya having been built more than a millennium earlier. Ryan Smith was also struck by the apparent ingenuity and technical ability of these ancient builders in shaping the land and hydrologic systems. The gardens not only feature fountains that function to this day, but the surrounding…

Source: Ancient Gardens of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka – Land8