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MIHINTALE<\/strong><\/p>\n Although not on the UNESCO list, Mihintale<\/strong> (also known as Cetiyagiri or Sagiri) is a very important archeological site and also the oldest. it is regarded as the cradle of Buddhism in Sri Lanka<\/strong> where the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa NURADHAPURA met. Mihintale covers a relative small area with some interesting archeological sites scattered around. The rock called Aradhana Gala<\/strong> where Mahinda landed an be climbed and is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhist all over the world. The view from the top\u00a0 is breathtaking especially when the sun is down. It is accessed\u00a0 by a fight of rock-carved steps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ANURADHAPURA<\/strong><\/p>\n This archaeological site is situated in the town of Anuradhapura,\u00a0 205 km away from the Capital of Colombo and spread on 41km2 (about 1\/10 of Angkor Archaeological site). Anuradhapura was added to the UNESCO Word Heritage list\u00a0 in 1982. It was founded in 3 BC and once had the tallest structures in the ancient world with a dagoba (stupa). The stupa we see nowadays can be quite different from the original ones as many of them we restored or reconstructed. British explorers found the lost city\u00a0 in the 19 century and many dagobas had fallen to the natural elements, as nature reclaimed is territory.<\/p>\n What is more fascinating about Anuradhapura and its extensive hydraulic system taking into account that the city was built more than 1000 years before\u00a0 Angkor. Some structures like the massive Jetavanaramaya dagoba which spreads on 5.6 hectares was the highest structure of the\u00a0 ancient word at 122 meters (it was scaled back to\u00a0 70 meters afterwards).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DAMBULLA CAVE TEMPLE <\/p>\n Dambulla cave<\/strong> temple, also known as Rangiri Dambulla or\u00a0<\/strong> Golden temple of Dambulla\u00a0<\/strong> is the largest temple cave complex in Sri Lanka , originating from 3BC . Like other cave temples\u00a0 in Sri Lanka, these shires\u00a0 were occupied by\u00a0 hermits monks in the ancient times.<\/p>\n At\u00a0 160 meters high, 5 caves (shrines ) close to each other, are famous for their\u00a0 157 status of Lord Buddha images and wall paintings which are covering an area of 2,100 square meters.\u00a0 It is an active religious site and can become quite crowded especially in the smaller caves.\u00a0 Adding the low light to this, it is quite challenging place to take pictures.<\/p>\n Reclining Buddha in Dev-Raja-viharaya\u00a0 cave<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Feet of the reclining Buddha in Dev-Raja-viharaya\u00a0 cave<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sri Lanka is a relatively small country but has a lot to offer to archaeological and history lovers with several beautiful and well maintained archaeological sites with 8 of them listed on the UNESCO World Heritage. The most important ones are situated in a zone called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[389,390,391],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sri-lanka-fr","tag-aruradhapura-fr","tag-cultural-triangle-fr","tag-dambulla-cave-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mihintale-rock-landscape.jpg\")
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\nIn 377 BC, King Pandukabhaya (437\u2013367 BC) moved the capital of the Sinhalese Kingdom to Anuradhapura and developed it into a prosperous city.<\/p>\n![\"Jetavanaramaya](\"https:\/\/www.angkorphotographytours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jetavanaramaya-dagoba-anuradhapura.jpg\")
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