{"id":32934,"date":"2017-08-16T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/the-cultural-triangle\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:05:35","slug":"the-cultural-triangle","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/asia\/sri-lanka\/the-cultural-triangle","title":{"rendered":"The cultural triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>THE HISTORICAL CENTRE, THE HEART OF SRI LANKA<\/h2>\n<p>The cultural triangle is the historical centre of the island, the heart of Sri Lanka. The cultural triangle is formed by <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/asia\/sri-lanka\/bezienswaardigheden\/polonnaruwa-en-anuradhapura\"><strong>Anuradhapura,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/asia\/sri-lanka\/bezienswaardigheden\/polonnaruwa-en-anuradhapura\"><strong>Polonnaruwa\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/asia\/sri-lanka\/bezienswaardigheden\/kandy\">Kandy.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here you will find impressive rock temples, stupas that are plant-clad or immaculately white, beautiful palaces and prestigious temples. A must-see during your luxury tour of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>In<strong> Sigiriya<\/strong> lies a 200 m high rock in the middle of the jungle. This giant rock is also called the Lion Rock. During the climb you will pass a &#8216;mirror wall&#8217;, a lion plateau and see sensual murals. At the top you will see <strong>ruins of the royal palace<\/strong> and a great view of the entire area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dambulla<\/strong> is best known for its famous <strong>Dambullarot stamps.<\/strong> The complex consists of spectacular caves that are full of unique Buddha statues in different sizes and mudras. Dambulla also offers a lively market where many types of fruits and vegetables are sold to locals from all over the island.<\/p>\n<p>A visit to the cultural triangle can be combined with a safari in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/asia\/sri-lanka\/bezienswaardigheden\/minneriya-national-park\">Minneriya National Park,\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>known for its gathering, a gathering of large groups of elephants in July and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic centre, the heart of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":22198,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[218],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[217],"class_list":["post-32934","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-sri-lanka","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239281,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32934\/revisions\/239281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=32934"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=32934"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=32934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}