Sri Lanka: Travel Guide to the Ancient Cities of Anuradhapura, Sigiriya, Polonnaruwa, Dambulla (Approach Guides 2022)

Book overview RECENTLY UPDATED FOR 2022! With more than 140 high-resolution images, videos and a detailed tour itinerary, this is the definitive travel guide to Sri Lanka’’s premier cultural sites.Home to the world’s premier Buddhist art and architecture, Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle — Anuradhapura, Sigiriya, Polonnaruwa and Dambulla Caves — offers travelers an experience available nowhere else.On our tour itinerary, we explore the Sinhalese civilization’’s brilliant 2000-year legacy that features the world’s largest brick-built structures, ancient bodhi tree shrines, painted cave temples and colossal standing Buddhas.Still infused with its historical magic, it is yours to discover.WHAT’S IN THIS GUIDEBOOK★ Art and architecture review.

We provide an overview of Sri Lanka’’s Buddhist art and architecture, isolating trademark features that you will see again and again while touring the island’s cultural triangle.To make things come alive, we have packed our review with high-resolution images.★ Tour of the highlights.Following our tradition of being the most valuable resource for culture-focused travelers, we offer a tour of Sri Lanka’s greatest monuments (itinerary below).

For each, we reveal its most important architectural and decorative features and provide a discussion that ties it all together.★ Advice for getting the best cultural experience.To help you plan your visit, this guidebook supplies logistical advice, maps and links to online resources.Plus, we give our personal tips for getting the most from your experience while on location.★ Information the way you like it.As with all of our guides, this book is optimized for intuitive, quick navigation; information is organized into bullet points to make absorption easy; and images are marked up with text