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Travel Information for Sri Lanka:
Pollonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, is situated
about 220km fro Colombo in the northcentral plains. Polonnaruwa can
be reached by car, coach, train or by bus and the trip tales over 6
hours.
Polonnaruwa is blessed with abundant wilderness, large number of man
made ancient tanks and reservoirs, ruins of the kingdom, paddy
fields and wild life. The largest of these man made tanks is the
Parakrama Samudraya, the sea of Parakrama, which is larger than
Colombo harbour in size.
Polonnaruwa blossemed during 10th to 12th century A.D. as a kingdom.
Some of the famous attractions are Gal Vihara, Tivanka Pilima Geya
(Image house)
Where to stay
Royal Lotus Hotel
Hotel Seruwa
Other things to see
Manampitiya
Maduru Oya National Park
Minneriya
Information
taken from archive of tradesrilanka.com 10/26/2001