Monday, July 27, 2009

Dambulla

District : Matale
Typical Weather : Warm and Sunny
Dist. from Colombo : 148 km

Like Sigiriya, Dambulla is a vast isolated rock mass and it was here that King Valagam Bahu took refuge in the 1st century B.C. He later turned the caves into a rock temple. Some of the frescoes are over 2,000 years old and there is a colossal figure of the recumbent Buddha carved out of the living rock, some 14 metre long.

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