Sigiriya & Dambulla (Sri Lanka - part 2)

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March 1st 2010

Published: March 1st 2010

14 February 2010 was the first day of the Lunar New Year in Vietnam. It was also a special day for me as I made a trip to Sigiriya and Dambulla. At 5am, I was standing in front of my guest house in Negombo and waiting for a car and driver to pick me up. I booked them the day before at a travel agent in the town and paid US$110 for the trip. There are other great cities in the Cultural Triangle, fo... Read Full Entry

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Hanoi_girl

theRedRiver

I am a Hanoi_girl who loves to travel. When working for a Japanese construction company in Hanoi, I had the chance to travel to 28 countries and to all the 63 provinces in Vietnam, including 25 trips to Huế city. Egypt, Mongolia and Italy are my love, and other favorite countries are Australia, France, New Zealand, Nepal, Fiji, Japan, India, Indonesia, Belgium, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China (8 trips, 15 cities), South Korea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Cambodia (3 trips), Brunei Darussalam, the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Laos (3 trips), Malaysia (4 trips), Singap... full info

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The Cave Temple in Dambulla

The Golden Temple in Dambulla

Stupa inside the cave

Painting on ceiling of the cave

Paintings outside the Cave Temple in Dambulla

Inside the Cave Temple in Dambulla

Buddha statues in Dambulla

Beautiful images - Dambulla

Inside the Cave Temple

Buddha statues in Dambulla

The Cave Temple in Dambulla

Everyone has to take off shoes and hats to enter this area. The white painted corridor on the left side is the entrance into 4 caves with various Buddha statues.

Inside the Cave Temple

Two kids are watching a monkey

There are 5 caves at the Cave Temple, however the last one was locked and there was a monkey inside it.

Inside the Cave Temple

Buying coconuts at a fruit shop

It was very hot outside between 2:00 - 3:00pm, about 36oC. My driver was drinking coconut while the seller was preparing another one for me. Later, some more people came to buy fruits at her shop by the main road. We were on the way back to Negombo from Dambulla.

Painting on the ceiling of a cave

Inside the Cave Temple in Dambulla

1st March 2010

John
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Missing Photo content
Your Travel experience is very interesting, but I think that the photos would look even much more better if they included The very beautifull Hanoi Girl in the Photo. Please consider this, why not include Yourself lke other times. I think it would be very good.!!!!!!!

1st March 2010

theRedRiver
Hanoi_girl

My photos
Thank you John for your comment. I'll show you in the next part some of my photos with Vietnamese traditional dress in front of the Indian Ocean in Sri Lanka. More photos later.

2nd March 2010

Hideyuki Kobayashi
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Sigiriya & Dambulla
Until you wrote about these two places, I had not known even those names. I'm still trying to find out further now about the places by Google Earth and Wikipedia and also about the relationship with South Asia in terms of Buddhism. Thanking you for providing me the opportunity.

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