Best places: Historic sites in Sri Lanka

Iconic temple with a bodhi tree grown from one of the 32 saplings from the sacred Anuradhapura tree.

👍👍 Aukana Ancient Rock Temple is a sacred buddhist temple region that has numerous worth-seeing sacred residues including Aukana Buddha, a massive Buddha statue carved out of a large single rock, towering over 40ft height, being the specimen of excellent ancient sculpture technology of the nation. Bot...

👍👍 Calming and Soothing place Ideal for meditation or some relaxation from all other stresses.

👍👍 Lankarama is a stupa built by King Valagamba, in an ancient place at Galhebakada in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Nothing is known about the ancient form of the stupa, and later this was renovated.

👍👍 This is one of the most beautiful rock fortress in srilanka. There are lot of ancient ruins and beautiful places to visit. Yahapauwa rock fortress is situated in Mahawa in between Kurunegala and Anuradhapura . This fortress was built by king Buvanekabahu and served as a palace and military fortress...

Hindu temple built between the 14th & 15th centuries, featuring ornately carved wooden pillars.

👍👍 Without writing something what learned about this place , I can’t leave. Lankatilaka Image house is considered to be the largest image house built in ancient Sri Lanka. According to history, the building had five stories and this image house had been decorated with paintings which was constructed by...

👍👍 The place of begining the Sri Lanka Buddhism. Mihindu thero came to this place to contact the King Tissa. Really ancient and nice place. And super nice sunset here at the back of lord buddha statue. Need to climb the rock and there is big Stupa and Buddha statue also. For the foreigners need to buy...

👍👍 Buddangala Temple is an ancient sacred place located in a beautiful environment.There are some elephants cross the road if you travel in evening. This temple is a temple on a rock, which is full of wild animals

👍👍 1st all these ppl dont talk english or sinhala. But still they can understand sinhala and response you properly. Earlier they didn't had any guides to explain the details here. But now there are some native tribe people to guide you. But it will be little hard to understand their language. If you ar...

👍👍 The nelum pokuna is an ancient pond with an amazing design which looks like a bloomed Lotus flower. It was built by ancient architects age of king Parakramabahu ( 1153-1186) The pond is located in the ancient city of polonnaruwa // on the left side of the road to theThiwanka Pilimage, after the dema...

👍👍 Near the Dambulla Kurunagala road. Maintaining by Central Cultural Fund. They are charging Rs 100 PER adults & Rs 50 for children. Considering archeological importance of this place, it is a Prehistoric Great Stone Cemetery The period from the end of the Prehistory to the beginning of the Age is kn...

👍👍 Kadugannawa Ambalama is a wayside rest which is situated along the Colombo – Kandy Road, a few meters before the Kadugannawa pass. Built during the British colonial rule in the early 19th century, the ambalama is a famous stopover for horsemen and merchants traveling towards ancient hill capital of...

👍 The Nilavarai well, which is considered an archaeological monument in the Jaffna Peninsula, is very old. There are legends among Hindus and Buddhists that the well has no bottom. Although it is said that it has no bottom, the explorations carried out by Navy divers and underwater cameras revealed th...

👍 This is called Padivita Ambalama. It is about 1.5km from Matale town. This is a very old Sinhalese cultural resting place. This place is a famous place. This There is a beautiful paddy field all around. Among the old ambalams in Ceylon, this also takes first place. A tourist attraction with beautifu...

Archeological site in a cave, with ancient art on display & tranquil jungle surrounds.

Historic mountain cave with evidence of prehistoric human inhabitants, reachable by short hike.

👍👍 Recently renovated and now looks really cool....

👍 There's nothing much to see here to be honest, but it's good for a quickly-planned trip in the afternoon. There is a staircase to the top and its not a difficult climb. I heard the road that appears on Google maps is not in good condition. Its better to continue straight along the Kadugannawa-Pothth...

👍 Seetha Kotuwa Seetha Kotuwa lies at Gurulupotha in Kandy district in the central province in Sri Lanka. To get to this archeological site, you have to travel about 5Km from Hasalaka town towards Kandy then you can see the Name board at the Gurulupotha rest house on your right. You have to park your...