We left the hotels behind and stayed with a local Sri Lankan family — and it changed the way we see the country. In this ...

Before Sigiriya, Sri Lanka's royal capital was located in Anuradhapura, more than 70km to the north-west. A coup, ... Inside the ancient royal tomb found by accident.

The Director General of the Department of Archaeology, Professor D. Thusitha Mendis, has announced plans to remove ...

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World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

It gets its name from a giant lion gateway (above) that the king built about halfway up the climb; ‘Sigiriya’ comes from the Sinhalese word ‘Sihagri’, meaning Lion Rock.. The ruins of Kasyapa’s palace ...

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Sigiriya has topped Booking.com’s annual Traveller Review Awards list of the 10 most welcoming cities in the world for 2025. Referred by Sri Lankans as the Eighth Wonder of the World, this ancient ...

The Sigiriya Project Office says that more than 250,000 foreigners have visited Sigiriya so far this year.The largest number of foreign tourists who visited Sigiriya this year are from Russia. Among ...