It's great to have friends all over the world thanks to my job. In March, I visited Sri Lanka to catch up with friends I hadn't seen in several years, and we went to a mountain-top (hill-top? not sure how tall something needs to be to qualify as a mountain) ruin called Sigiriya and cave temples at Dambulla.
Ruins of the villages formerly surrounding the fortress are all around the main site. After climbing about halfway up the left-hand side of the mountain, we found an imposing set of feet, making one wonder what the original visitors used to be greeted by.
The cave temples were similar to ones in Thailand and Southeast Asia, but I hadn't seen any with such reverence for snakes. I don't know that I'd want to be sitting on a giant cobra.
Ruins of the villages formerly surrounding the fortress are all around the main site. After climbing about halfway up the left-hand side of the mountain, we found an imposing set of feet, making one wonder what the original visitors used to be greeted by.
The cave temples were similar to ones in Thailand and Southeast Asia, but I hadn't seen any with such reverence for snakes. I don't know that I'd want to be sitting on a giant cobra.
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