The hotel is arranged a tuk-tuk with a driver. Anthony to take us around and see the two main sites here. First one is the ancient city of Polonnaruwa and then the two big rocks Sigiriya and Pidurangala.
This is our tuk tuk driver. Anthony
He's an absolute whizz at negotiating the traffic. He told me that yesterday he took someone to the airport from here. That's 3½ hours each way... Crazy!
Polonnaruwa was one of the major capitals of Sri Lanka -There's been a few over the years -and this was built around the 11th century. It's full of temples and monasteries. The king developed irrigation systems that are still used to this day. Unfortunately, a couple of hundred years later the place was attacked and razed to the ground and all that was left were the buildings that were made of brick and granite. The city was abandoned after that and 600 years later it was rediscovered in 1897.
Here's a few pics
We then went on to have a look at the Sigiriya and Pidurangala rocks - these both take a couple of hours to climb so we took some pictures from the bottom instead.
A really interesting and enjoyable day out and our driver and guide really knew his stuff.
Here cash is king... They don't like plastic.
Big Cash 💴 💴💴💴💴💴💴
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