Cultural Triangle
Polonnaruwa
The best-preserved ruins on the island.
The twelfth-century capital, compact enough to see by bicycle in a morning and better preserved than anything else here.
Every route we run through the cultural triangle passes Polonnaruwa, and the question is never whether to include it but how many nights it earns. Our answer is 1 night — enough to see it at the hour it is worth seeing and still leave in daylight.
Tell a consultant which month you are coming and they will say plainly whether this is the right place for it, or whether the same days are better spent on the other coast.
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