A Journey Back In Time In Sri Lanka
I did exactly what you aren’t supposed to do: I looked down. For average non-acrophobes, it probably wouldn’t have meant much, but for those of us with a healthy fear of impending death (including a related fear of snakes, spiders and Abba), the idea the narrow metal staircase leading me to the apex of Sigiriya, the 6-story-high chunk of rock sitting in the central plains of Sri Lanka, was being held in place by a series of small foundations cemented into the sheer granite rock face wasn’t the most comforting. I then looked behind me to assess how far I’d come, and a long line of Sri Lankan children, here on a class field trip, happily waved to me from lower down the staircase.
“If this climb was safe enough to be part of the itinerary of a second grade class trip,” I thought to myself, “I was probably going to make it out of here alive.”
Sigiriya was the last stop of my travels in the portion of central Sri Lanka known as…
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