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A sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries, this cave monastery, with its five sanctuaries, is the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist mural paintings (covering an area of 2,100 sq. m) are of particular importance, as are the 157 statues.

This is one of the most amazing countries I have ever been to....

An island off the south-eastern cost shores of India, 880 km north of the equator, in the Indian Ocean.

We got a bus from Kandy up to Dambulla. I think that it took a couple of hours. I can't remember much about the trip. It took us a while to find somewhere cheap to stay in Dambulla. In the end we found a couple of cheap guesthouses on the south side of town. One was trying to charge quite a lot for a really grotty room with lots of damp and mould on the wall, so we went to the other one. We managed to get some money off because we were staying for three nights. The only downside was that we …