Heritage Holidays

Sri Lanka is a country with a fabulous history. Home to one of the oldest civilizations in the world, our gorgeous country offers amazing historical treasures. Sri Lanka’s documented history goes back even more than 2500 years making it one of the most fascinating destinations in the world to visit. Well-planned cities, glorious palaces, expansive reservoirs, stunning temples and monasteries, lush gardens, amazing monuments and works of art are characteristic of the rich and fruitful lives the kings and queens of Sri Lanka’s glorious past have led.

Some of the most important historical landmarks in our beautiful island include mystic and exciting well-known places such as Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kandy, Dambulla, Sigiriya and Galle as well as more off-the-beaten track less traveled heritage sites such as Yapahuwa situated in the once royal city of Kurunegala. Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Kandy located in the north central and central provinces in the country form the shape of a triangle and are now popularly known as the cultural triangle. Buddhist kingdoms flourished within this triangular area bounded in the north by the ancient capital and sacred city of Anuradhapura, in the east by the medieval capital Polonnaruwa and in the south by Kandy the hilltop capital of the last Sinhala king. The cultural triangle is profoundly important to us because of the deep history within this area, the fact that cultural triangle forms the center from which the influence of Theravada Buddhism and Sinhalese culture spread far and wide and also because of the astonishing concentration of historical sites and monuments within this area.  

In Sri Lanka fortunately we have been able to preserve certain aspects of the performing arts, architecture and religious practices of by-gone civilizations, providing an opportunity for present and future generations to gain some insight into Sri Lanka’s great engineering achievements and ideas and understand why they are still with us today.