Things to do in Anuradhapura

A huge brick stupa at the centre of the ancient Abhayagiri monastic city, once a great international seat of Buddhist learning.

A rock-cut cave temple beside a lotus pond, famous for its exquisite ancient stone carvings including the 'Isurumuniya Lovers'.

The sacred fig tree grown from a cutting of the Buddha's own Bodhi tree, said to be the oldest historically documented tree in the world.

A colossal red-brick stupa, once among the tallest structures in the ancient world, at the ruins of the Jetavana monastery.

The mountain where Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka, reached by a monumental stairway past ancient stupas and monastic ruins.

A gleaming white dome-shaped stupa and one of the most sacred and revered monuments in the Buddhist world.

The oldest dagoba in Sri Lanka, a small bell-shaped stupa ringed by slender ancient stone pillars.