serving as a grand entrance to the more than 1,200 steps leading up to the palace. In his essay Sigiriya: City, Palace and Royal Gardens, Senake Bandaranayake, founding director of archaeology at ...

Foreign tourists visiting the Sigiriya rock fortress despite torrential rains complain over the exorbitant rates charged from them. Foreigners now are required to pay Rs.11,772 whereas locals pay ...

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention ... the magnificent carving of the lion’s paws at the entrance, which Forbes had not been able to see.

For want of a toilet As he tells it, Punchihewa was at Sigiriya, in search yet again of clues to the bee attacks. He was waiting near the famous lion’s paw at the entrance to the onetime royal ...