Written From Here
Everything Worth Reading Before You Arrive
These were written twelve minutes from Sigiriya Rock by people who send guests to these places every week and hear how it went at breakfast the next morning.
Five Guides
The Guides, in Reading Order
Roughly the order people need them, from the ticket you will buy first to the month you should have come in.
Tickets
Sigiriya Rock Tickets
What the entrance fee actually is, and why every site you have read quotes a different number for it.
Read the ticket guide →
The Other Climb
Pidurangala
What the temple donation covers, and how hard the climb really is once the steps run out and the boulders start.
Read the Pidurangala guide →
Elephants
Minneriya Park and the Gathering
When the elephants gather, why the park moves from one year to the next, and how the entrance fees are put together.
Read the Minneriya guide →
Getting Here
Kandy to Sigiriya by Bus
How to reach us without a car, and the train service that everybody plans around and that does not exist.
Read the transport guide →
Timing
The Best Time to Visit
Which month suits the trip you are actually planning, rather than which month a rainfall chart prefers.
Read the seasons guide →Not a Guide
Days We Arrange for You
The safari, the birding mornings, the village cooking lesson and the drivers. Those are not guides, they are things we book, so they live elsewhere.
Things to do around Sigiriya →How the safari works →
Still Not Sure
Ask Us the Thing the Guide Does Not Answer
Whether the path is wet this week, what the counter is charging this morning, which park the herds are in, whether your parents will manage the climb. These are the questions a written page cannot hold, and they are the ones we answer best.