Majestically rising from the central plains, Sigiriya Rock is Sri Lanka’s single most dramatic sight. Awestruck and open mouthed, one wonders where the heavenly bound flights of stairs through the colossal lion’s paws carved in to the bedrock leads. Steep vertiginous staircases attached to near vertical rock walls leads to the flat-topped summit that contains the ruins of the fallen kingdom of King Kassapa.
Remnants of the fortress hints a civilization rich with art and poetry; romantic doodling of a poet carved into mirrored rock walls; remarkable frescoes of meagerly dressed beauties with flowers in their delicate hands; surrounding spellbinding mist-wrapped panoramic landscape with lily covered moats, water gardens and cave shrines makes Sigiriya a phenomenal experience.