Our first stop was Dambulla, which are ancient rock caves. Upon arrival after a cramped bus ride, the first thing we saw was a giant mouth, alike to the one at Luna Park in Melbourne. Resultantly, the first thing I thought was: "This looks like a trashy amusement park rather than ancient buddhist caves". I didn't even bother getting a ticket to see it, preferring instead to wait with the bags while Bec went to the top to see it. Frustrated after a long bus ride, she came back despondent when they wouldn't let her in because she was wearing shorts. As I had long pants on, she gave me her ticket, and I took many photos for her. I wasn't a huge fan of Dambulla; aboriginal rock paintings in Australia were much more impressive than the caves with as many Buddhas squished into one cave as is possible.
Our next stop was Anuradhapura. After another bus trip, we stayed overnight in Anuradhapura town before making plans to be driven around visiting ruins in a tuk-tuk in the morning. Unfortunately, after 20 minutes and visiting three different dagebums, which are big white domed structures with a point at the top, we realised that the many different ancient sites to see around Anuradhapura were relatively homogenous. In any case, all the sites were large white domed structures with a point at the top. Hence, we cut the trip very short, payed the tuk-tuk driver half the agreed-upon amount for the whole day, and took the one bus per day to Trincomalee, a beach town on the North East of Sri Lanka
Our first stop was Dambulla, which are ancient rock caves. Upon arrival after a cramped bus ride, the first thing we saw was a giant mouth, alike to the one at Luna Park in Melbourne. Resultantly, the first thing I thought was: "This looks like a trashy amusement park rather than ancient buddhist caves". I didn't even bother getting a ticket to see it, preferring instead to wait with the bags while Bec went to the top to see it. Frustrated after a long bus ride, she came back despondent when they wouldn't let her in because she was wearing shorts. As I had long pants on, she gave me her ticket, and I took many photos for her. I wasn't a huge fan of Dambulla; aboriginal rock paintings in Australia were much more impressive than the caves with as many Buddhas squished into one cave as is possible.
Our next stop was Anuradhapura. After another bus trip, we stayed overnight in Anuradhapura town before making plans to be driven around visiting ruins in a tuk-tuk in the morning. Unfortunately, after 20 minutes and visiting three different dagebums, which are big white domed structures with a point at the top, we realised that the many different ancient sites to see around Anuradhapura were relatively homogenous. In any case, all the sites were large white domed structures with a point at the top. Hence, we cut the trip very short, payed the tuk-tuk driver half the agreed-upon amount for the whole day, and took the one bus per day to Trincomalee, a beach town on the North East of Sri Lanka
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