Here is what you need to know about climbing to Sigiriya, the 200-metre-high city fortress in Sri Lanka Here is what you need to know about climbing to Sigiriya, the 200-metre-high city fortress in ...

Sigiriya has been crowned the world’s most welcoming city for 2025 by Booking.com, based on over 360 million of its verified customer reviews. The online travel agency (OTA) named Sigiriya as a ...

In the central highlands of Sri Lanka, my driver makes a turn on to a small dirt road. Minutes later, he turns again at an unmarked opening in the trees. Moments after that, we find ourselves in a ...

On top of a rock plateau overlooking dense jungle and a vast plain, 90 mi/145 km northeast of Colombo, is Sigiriya, the mysterious remains of the fifth-century fortress of King Kasyapa. When it w ...

Over 1950 years ago, the Sigiriya Lion Rock was a magnificent palace hideaway for a king. Sigiriya Rock Fortress has many legends and tales surrounding it. History records that it was the magnificent, ...

What was rated 4.5 out of 5 on excellence by TripAdvisor in 2012 and also selected as the ‘Top Choice’ from sites all over the world by the Chinese the same year, is a sorry sight today, writes ...

SIGIRIYA (Sri Lanka) - A group of three persons have launched a fast unto death atop the Sigiriya rock fortress here this week calling on the authorities to protect the historical site, reports ...

The map below shows the location of Kandy and Sigiriya. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...