Another couple of hours north of Kandy, first through more tea-growing region, and then into the sprawling flat agricultural area of Dambulla. We arrived at our hotel just outside the city. After settling in we caught a tuk-tuk for a 10 minute ride to the Dambulla Cave Temple. This is a short climb to the entrance to several large caves.
Each cave is full of Buddha statues that are eerily lit up in the dark of the cave.
From the caves we continued on the path downward to the Golden Temple, with a large golden Buddha statue and a museum.
This is a picture from behind the statue, with Sigiriya Rock in the distance, which is where we planned to go the next day.
We got to the tuk-tuk just as the rain started. It is same type of weather pattern here as we've seen recently: nice in the morning and heavy rain in the afternoon. But today it really poured, with lots of lightening, for the whole afternoon and evening.
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