Polonnaruwa / Places to visit

1. Beaches
2. Wildlife safaris
3. Polonnaruwa
4. Anuradhapura
5. Sigiriya
6. Dambulla cave temples
7. Galle
8. Sacred city of Kandy
9. Southern Hill Country
10. Colombo

One of the highlights of the Cultural Triangle, if not the whole of Sri Lanka, is the great ruined capital of Polonnaruwa is. In its twelfth-century heyday the city represented a high point of early Sri Lanka civilisation.

Polonnaruwa has extensive and well-preserved structures that offer a fascinating glimpse of the Sri Lanka of the middle ages, including some of the island’s finest monuments. It is compact enough to be looked over fairly completely in a single (but busy) day.