Dambulla Cave Temple

Dambulla is a cave temple that is the largest and best-preserved cave temple complex of Sri Lanka. Allowing much ventilation, the ceiling is fixed automatically quite high and it is decorated with paintings fully. It was declared a world heritage in 1991. 153 Buddha statues and a number larger than that of paintings are abode here. Known history of this site reported back to 2700 years. It was converted to Buddhist Temple by King Valagambahu at the 1st century. Complex has five caves of varying sizes, worthy to has souvenirs. The rock is high as 153 meters and atop the temple has carved.