Sigiriya has the best frescoes
The route up to the top starts with giant lion's feet
This is what I look like when driven half mad by terror...
...due to this staircase
Thursday, 3 February 2011
2011.01 - Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
Sigiriya, a damn big rock (a volcano plug apparently, like Devil's Peak in America)
Sigiriya has the best frescoes
The route up to the top starts with giant lion's feet
This is what I look like when driven half mad by terror...
...due to this staircase
Sigiriya has the best frescoes
The route up to the top starts with giant lion's feet
This is what I look like when driven half mad by terror...
...due to this staircase
2011.01 - Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Bus station scene
Dambulla is full of Buddhas
And cave paintings
This is heaven...
...and this is hell
Ultra kitsch museum outside the caves
Dambulla is full of Buddhas
And cave paintings
This is heaven...
...and this is hell
Ultra kitsch museum outside the caves
2011.01 - Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
This is the collection of Bodi trees grown from cuttings of the one that Siddhartha achieved enlightment under and became Buddha, allegedly.
Big pagoda
Even bigger pagoda - where's Tammy?
Dodgy copper. First he tried to steal my pen, then wanted this photo, then asked us to send him 100 quid! Needless to say he got nothing, but my winning smile.
Big pagoda
Even bigger pagoda - where's Tammy?
Dodgy copper. First he tried to steal my pen, then wanted this photo, then asked us to send him 100 quid! Needless to say he got nothing, but my winning smile.
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