Sigiriya

 

 

Sigiriya is the wonder of the nature.Also it named as a 8th world wonder by UNESCO.Sigiriya also known as the Lion's rock is a rock fortrees and it located in Mathale district of Sri lanka.Sigiriya is most famous visiting place among the locals and tourists .Sigiriya was built by king Kashyapa for his kingdom .In earlier sigiriya was a rock- shelter mountain  monastery  which was donated by buddhists. Also after king Kashyapa's death.it was again use as monastery.King Kashyapa renovated the sigiriya  by building gardens and places. sigiriya has wonderful irrigation technology and architectural plan .Mainly we can identify most importantly things about sigiriya when we going to gether the data .frescoes is the most important thing in the sigiriya . There are only two pockets of painting on the western face of the rock.

Those called as " Sigiri Apsaras".how ever a lot of these paintings have been wiped out when this place was  convert into monstery .Second valuable thing is the gardens. Sigiriya has divided into four main parts as water gardens, caves, boulder gardens and terraced gardens. mirror wall  is one of the most popular tourist attraction in sigiriya.In the past, the place got its name from  the fact that the king could be seen his portait of king walkinh in infront of the mirror wall.But the wall is now partially covered with verses scribbled by visitors to the rock.Finaly ,As a Sri Lankan I would like to say we must protect the proud of the nature.