8th wonder of the world - Seegiriya

Seegiriya is an ancient kingdom of Sri lanka and its geographical location has made it a very safe place for king Kashyapa to build his kingdom there.Seegiriya once named as the 8th wonder of the world...When you get to the top of the rock you will see some splendid views over miles from there.Nowadays Seegiriya has been a very popular place among both local and foreign visitors.


If we simply consider what to admire at Seegiriya they would be
1)Paws of the huge lions
2)the royal place at the top of the Seegiriya rock
3)gardens
4)frescoes and graffiti
though there have been constituents of the fortress during the ancient times like the inner rampart now what we can see at the entrance is a huge paws of a lion.it is said that these paws played a great role in identifying Seegiriya as a place with ancient values when it was first discovered.

At the top of the rock there is an area of around 3.5 acres where there has been the palace of king Kashyapa.when you get there to the top you will understand how difficult it would be to build a castle there at the top of that huge rock.surely it tells the outstanding capabilities of ancient srilankan engineering skills as all the other supplies including water were regularly supplied to the palace which was on the top as mentioned earlier.
gardens,footpaths,ponds etc were build at the ground level at Seegiriya in such a manner that one could have a great view of them watching from the top where the palace was been or by getting down to the ground level as well.

Seegiriya is well known of its brilliant frescoes.there are different theories to explain these but even without knowing any of those theories you can appreciate how skill full the ancient sinhala artist was by watching those frescoes and graffiti.Watch Seegiriya video

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some good photos taken at Seegiriya