Day Trip To Anuradhapura Kingdom and Wilpattu Safari From Colombo

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Abayagiriya Stupa

  The Jetavanarama stupa is a stupa, or Buddhist reliquary monument, located in the ruins of Jetavana monastery in the UNESCO world heritage city of Anuradhapura Sri Lanka. At 122 metres (400 ft), it was the world's tallest stupa. and the third tallest structure in the world.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Isurumuniya Temple

  Isurumuniya is a Buddhist temple situated near the Tissa Lake in Anuradhapura Ancient Kingdom Sri Lanka. There are four carvings of special interest in this Vihara. They are the Isurumuniya Lovers, Elephant Pond and The Royal Family.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Moonstone or Sandakada pahana

  Sandakada Pahana, known as Moonstone. is a unique feature of the architecture of ancient Sri Lanka, It is an elaborately carved semi-circular stone slab, usually placed at the bottom of staircases and entrances. First seen in the latter stage of the Anuradhapura Kingdom period.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 4
  Vessagiriya Ruins

  Vessagiriya, or Issarasamanarama, is an ancient Buddhist forest monastery that is part of the ruins of Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka. It is located about half a mile south of Isurumuniya, among boulders.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Mirisaveti Stupa

  The Mirisaweti Stupa is a memorial building, a stupa, situated in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, King Dutugamunu built the Mirisaveti Stupa after defeating King Elara. After placing the Buddha's relics in the sceptre, he had gone to Tissa Wewa for a bath leaving the sceptre. After the bath he returned to the place where the sceptre was placed, and it is said that it could not be moved. The stupa was built in the place where the sceptre stood. It is also said that he remembered that he partook a chilly curry without offering it to the Sangha. In order to punish himself he built the Mirisavetiya Dagaba.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 6
  Lankarama Sthupa

  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. The ruins show that there are rows of stone pillars and it is no doubt that there has been a house built encircling the stupa to cover it.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 7
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  Lovamahapaya is a building situated between Ruwanweliseya and Sri Mahabodiya in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. It is also known as the Brazen Palace or Lohaprasadaya because the roof was covered with bronze tiles.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 8

  Vessagiriya, or Issarasamanarama, is an ancient Buddhist forest monastery that is part of the ruins of Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka. It is located about half a mile south of Isurumuniya, among boulders.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 9
  Abayagiriya Stupa

  Abhayagiri Vihāra was a major monastery site of Mahayana, Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism that was situated in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 10
  Main Refectory Of Abayagiri Monastery

  Abhayagiri Vihāra was a major monastery site of Mahayana, Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism that was situated in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 11

  Naka Vihara is a dagoba belonging to the late Anuradhapura period between 7-10 centuries and located in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 12
  Samadhi Statue

  The Samadhi Buddha is a famous statue situated at Mahamevnāwa Park in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The Buddha is depicted in the position of the Dhyana Mudra, the posture of meditation associated with his first Enlightenment. This statue is 7 feet 3 inches in height and carved from dolomite marble.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 13
  Ruwanwelisaya

  The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the Mahathupa, is a stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha's relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 14

  Ranmasu Uyana is a park in Sri Lanka containing the ancient Magul Uyana. It is situated close to Isurumuni Vihara and Tissa Wewa in the ancient sacred city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. It sits on approximately 40 acres, and is a noted example of Sri Lankan garden architecture of the pre-Christian era. According to an inscription found in Vessagiriya, the water to the park was supplied by Tessa Wewa and then released to rice fields around Isurumuni Vihara.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 15
  Sri Maha Boodhi Temple

  Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi is a historical sacred bo tree (Ficus religiosa) in the Mahamewuna Garden in historical city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. This is believed to be a tree grown from a cutting of the southern branch from the historical sacred bo tree, Sri Maha Bodhi, which was destroyed during Emperor Ashoka the Great time, at Buddha Gaya in India, under which Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) attained Enlightenment.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 16
  Dagoba of Thuparama

  Thuparamaya is the earliest documented Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka. Its building dates to the arrival of Mahinda Thera (Mahindagamanaya) and the introduction of Buddhism to the island.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 17
  Mihintale

  Mihintale is a mountain peak near Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. It is believed by Sri Lankans to be the site of a meeting between the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa which inaugurated the presence of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 18
  Anuradhapura

  Ancient Kingdom of Anuradhapura and Mihintale Sri Lanka.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 19
  Wilpattu National Park

  Wilpattu is the largest and one of the oldest national parks in Sri Lanka. Wilpattu is world renowned for its leopard population. It is also a Home to Wild Elephants, Water Buffaloes, Crocodiles and Many Kind of Creatures. A remote camera survey conducted in Wilpattu from July to October 2015 by the Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Trust captured photographs of forty-nine individual leopards in the surveyed area, the core area density of which was between that of Yala National Park's Block 1 and Horton Plains National Park.

  3 hours • Admission ticket free
• 20
  Wilpattu National Park

  Wilpattu is the largest and one of the oldest national parks in Sri Lanka. Wilpattu is world renowned for its leopard population. It is also a Home to Wild Elephants, Water Buffaloes, Crocodiles and Many Kind of Creatures. A remote camera survey conducted in Wilpattu from July to October 2015 by the Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Trust captured photographs of forty-nine individual leopards in the surveyed area, the core area density of which was between that of Yala National Park's Block 1 and Horton Plains National Park.

  3 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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