Hill Top Ruin???

Today was our last day near Polonaruwa (which is the town near the center of Sri Lanka we have been at for the last few days). We started quite early heading to a rock top fortress called Sigiriya. Well less of a fortress and more of fortress ruins, but they were still amazing! The gist of it was that the king back in 450bc used this place to hold out in when the Indians came south to Sri Lanka to invade. The fortress is built on a giant hill rock thinger that made it very difficult to invade. The climb up boasted about 1500 stairs and those were the easy ones that they put in for us lazy tourist! Before that (back in the day) the stairs were just cut into the stone and were more like small foot holds! Two interesting features were the paintings of the kings ladies (about 500 back in the day, but only a few still remain) and the lion stair case, which was two giant clawed feet at the base of the main stairs. A few pics will be included at the bottom. After the long climb up we got a great view of the surrounding are, much like the king would have had to see where his invaders were attacking from. Though just brick foundation now, the rock top fortress must have been a sight 1500 years ago! Back down and back to the hotel we went...rest and relaxation before our long journey tomorrow to the south! It's been great up here though and hopefully just a nice down by the BEACH!!!! Oh YEAH!

The rock far away!

Two of the kings ladies! RAWR!

Lion Toes?

No throwing dad!