Best places: Historic sites in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

👍👍 Calming and Soothing place Ideal for meditation or some relaxation from all other stresses.

👍👍 Lankarama is a stupa built by King Valagamba, in an ancient place at Galhebakada in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Nothing is known about the ancient form of the stupa, and later this was renovated.

👍👍 Without writing something what learned about this place , I can’t leave. Lankatilaka Image house is considered to be the largest image house built in ancient Sri Lanka. According to history, the building had five stories and this image house had been decorated with paintings which was constructed by...

👍👍 The place of begining the Sri Lanka Buddhism. Mihindu thero came to this place to contact the King Tissa. Really ancient and nice place. And super nice sunset here at the back of lord buddha statue. Need to climb the rock and there is big Stupa and Buddha statue also. For the foreigners need to buy...

👍👍 The nelum pokuna is an ancient pond with an amazing design which looks like a bloomed Lotus flower. It was built by ancient architects age of king Parakramabahu ( 1153-1186) The pond is located in the ancient city of polonnaruwa // on the left side of the road to theThiwanka Pilimage, after the dema...

👍👍 Very interesting site passing route to mihinthale, opposite Kaludiyapokuna temple scheme. Climb to a top of a rock with ruins of a temple...Unfortunately, the ancient structures and what ever frescoes/ pictures remained, were ruined by local looters and no action seems to be taken by the authorities...

👍👍 The Nakha Vehera belongs to the Mahayana tradition and constructed during 7-10th centuries (late late Anuradhapura era). The square shape Sthupa is one of the four square shaped dagoba in Sri Lanka and would have been similar to the Satmahal Prasadaya in Polonnaruwa. Ruins of several other building...

👍👍 The Kalvari is located in the Komarasankulam, Vavuniya District, Northern Province. The Kalvari of Vavuniya is a famous shrine for the Northern Christians. Especially during the Lent season pilgrims from all over the country climb up the hill to conduct their rituals and to participate in the Way of...