Your Dambulla Tours can be exhilarating as they have a lot to offer. Stay at the most luxurious hotels, visit the most exotic places, eat at restaurants that give you a host of international cuisines to choose from, and wake up to the exciting nightlife of Dambulla. Make your fun-filled with happy memories.
Accommodation
Dambulla is situated approximately 19 kilometers from Sigriya. The moment you step into Dambulla, you need to check into a hotel. Accommodation is easily available here. You have a wide range of hotels to choose from. Some of the most popular hotels are:
Heritance Kandalama
Culture Club Resorts
Hotel Sigiriya
Amaya Lake
Kandalama
Places of Visit
Dambulla Tourism includes packages which offer tourists loads of places of visit. The caves form one of the many sites in Dambulla. There are more than 80 caves in which monks used to meditate. The caves worth mentioning are:
Maha-Raja_Viharaya (also called The Temple of the Great King)
Golden Cave Temple
Golden Temple
Cave Temple
Besides these caves is the Dambulla Rock Temple. This cave which was built in the 1st Century B.C., and comprises of five cave temples. History has it that the caves were a shelter to King Valagam Bahu, when he was sent into exile by Anuradhapura. There are innumerable paintings and statues present here. The statues belong to the Hindu religion and date back to 12th Century AD. There are also 48 statues of Lord Buddha. The paintings are believed to be of the 18th Century AD and adorn the walls and ceilings of the caves.
The other places of visit are Rose Quartz Mountain and Iron Wood Forest. History states that King Dappula of the 10th Century AD declared this piece of land as a sanctuary for humans. It is said that those who took refuge here planted trees. This in turn became an extensive Iron wood plantation, thus the name Iron Wood Forestry. Besides this, the Rose Quartz is a mountain range which is said to be 500 million years old. Quartz of the colors rose, white and violet are found here.
Food
Besides visiting a lot of tourist attractions, on your Dambulla travel, you can indulge yourself in eating the roadside wade and rotty. Wade is grain that is fried along with vegetable balls, while rotty is pockets of dough that surround the various vegetable fillings.
Your Dambulla Tours will surely be a memorable one as there's a lot for everyone.
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