From Sigiriya To Kandy, Sri Lanka, 20 March 1995

Damsels keeping abreast of the fruit plate

Very early start to Sigiriya Rock – climbed all the way to the top – via the Sigiriya damsels (5th century wall paintings) – so high has a splendid ruined castle.

So high, but look at the crumbling old ruins…and product placement opportunity

Returned to Sigiriya [Village Hotel] for swim, packing and lunch (best meal at Sigiriya) before leaving for Kandy.

I wasn’t going to miss that place, despite them saving the best till last food-wise.

On the way we stopped at a wonderful spice garden where all the edible and medicinal herbs were explained to us.

We had massage and tried spice tea at that herb garden
There we saw a wood carving man using his feet as part of the process

We then stopped at a daft batik factory before going on to Kandy.

We were starting to find these commercial breaks quite tiresome, especially when, as the day went on, the scheduled touring was seemingly more like a short break between these daft commercial visits.

Before dinner we went to a performance of Kandyan dance including firewalkers.

Let’s hope he knew what he was doing

Dinner at Hotel Suisse – better than Sigiriya. Early night.

Part One of our two-part photo album for this Sri lanka trip can be viewed through the flickr link below there are 69 photos therein:

01 17 March 1995 - Ornate Hindu Temple, ColomboSRI_I1 (16)

Real gluttons for photo punishment can see raw scans of all 430 photos we took unedited and unlabelled here:

SRI_J4 (10)

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