Sigiriya the rock, the light strip along it is the mirror wall, you walk behind it on your way up. the middle photo is the lions feet, the bottom of the final climb to the top, lastly the view from the top with Kandy in the far distance. You can also see the bathing pool on the top, totally spectacular.Both Polonnaruwa and Sigiriya are world heritage sites, Sigiriya being for me the most amazing. There is a huge lump of rock in the middle of a plain on top of which a palace was built. There are only ruins left but they are spectacular and apart from the top cover many acres with water gardens walls and moats. The climb to the top is quite hairy, especially a spiral- staircase climb to see fresco's, must be a hundred feet up the side of rock face. You have to get there early as once the sun and temperature rise climbing gets too difficult. We set off at 6.30am, I was the first person up to the fresco's but overtaken by a Sri Lankan family to the top of the rock. Still had the place more or less to myself for a while. When it was occupied it must have been truly spectacular and the views from the top across the plains are magnificent.
