Day 07 – Kandy to Dalhousie – Adam’s Peak
A Sri Lankan breakfast – tea, daal, rotti, sambal and string hoppers
Kandy, once the capital of the last Sinhalese kingdom, is home to the Sacred Tooth Relic Temple. It houses Sri Lanka’s most important Buddhist relic – a tooth of the Buddha.
Day 05 – Sigiriya to Polonnaruwa to Ritigala
Climbing Sigiriya Rock in the morning. I was the first and hope to earn extra merits from the higher beings.
According to guidebook, Sigiriya is the hardened magma plug of an extinct and eroded volcano. It was said the summit used to be a royal garden and palace. Another theory suggested that it was a Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist monastery.