Sri Lanka’s ‘Cultural Triangle’: Part 2 – An ancient city
We spent our first four days in Sri Lanka in the ‘Cultural Triangle’ area of the country, basing ourselves in Habarana. Our first day was spent at Sigiriya and Dambulla. On our second day we explored the sprawling ruins of 1,000 year old Polonnaruwa. It was Sri Lanka’s capital city for 300 years from the late 10th century but was abandoned in the 13th century, as it was proving more and more susceptible to Indian invasion. A ‘new’ town has since…