Mihintale

Not far from Anuradhapura is the sacred mountain of Mihintale. It is possible to visit on the same day you explore Anuradhapura. Civil engineers will relish the way water was handled over two-thousand years ago. Others can just take in the sights and imagine what the place was like as a great monastic city.

Not all lakes are merely lakes. Some are tanks and were the reservoirs that once served an elaborate system of irrigation and water distribution.

 

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