  | Sigiriya means 'Lion Rock' because it looks like a crouching lion from a distance. After a climb through the forest, you reached the gate, a 60 foot tall lion statue. Walking through its mouth accessed the staircase leading all the way to the top. Only the paws are left today. There were no guard rails back then. Think of all the lovely maidens who risked life and limb just to experience the King's favor and good graces... Ouch! The perilous path was decorated with a virtual bevy of big breasted topless women painted on the rock face. But only a dozen murals remain today, weathered By the elements. The hanging garden at Sigiriya is what legends are made of. Imagine watching the sunset while bathing in its reflecting pool perched high above the valley below. Wow! And yet Sigiriya has been somewhat forgotten, overshadowed By Sri Lanka's incessant political turmoil. We all know Sri Lanka because Arthur C. Clarke chose to make it his home, for "personal" reasons. Sri Lanka is said to lend a blind eye to man/boy love relationships. A few of his books use the island in their plots. In 1992 William McGowan wrote the definitive book on Sri Lanka. "Only Man Is Vile" is a gripping first hand account of the absurd civil war still raging there today. It reads like Gulliver's Travels! In it McGowan traces back the roots of the conflict to how in 1880 Theosophy's Henry Steel Olcott whipped the Sinhalese into an Aryan frenzy against the Tamils, and how Hitler later capitalized on that hatred in his eternal quest for racial purity. Sigiriya was deserted after the death of its sex-obsessed king. For a few years Buddhist monks used it as a monastery. It quickly fell into disrepair as no resources were made available to maintain it. Centuries of vandalism took their toll. UNESCO is now funding the preservation of the site. The fountains have been restored to working order. But tourism doesn't appear to be very well organized. Perhaps the Ceylon Tourist Board feels the climb is too much for the average person to make. I read it's not easy, and you can't be afraid of heights. But kids today bungee jump off bridges for a thrill. National Geographic did a story about Sigiriya in their November 1946 issue, but nothing else since. Check it out at your public library. These old black & white photographs are still the most wonderful I've seen. It used to be illegal for tourists to take pictures in Sri Lanka without a special permit. So really good pictures are hard to come By What I've seen on the Net doesn't do Sigiriya justice. But new travel books from Lonely Planet & Insight Guide are making up for lost time.
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