Next we traveled to Sigiriya, Sri Lanka but our travels didn't go exactly as planned. Ripley got sick in the car and we chalked it up to car sickness because the roads were very bumpy. On our way to Sigiriya, we stopped at the Dambulla Cave Temple.
The temple dates back to the first century. Dambulla is the largest and best-preserved cave temple complex in the country. We were able to tour five of the eighty caves which contain statues and paintings, which are of Buddha and his life, including statues of Sri Lankan kinds and many gods and goddesses.
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| The outside of the cave complex, which has been enclosed for visitors. |
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| The reclining Buddha's feet. |
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| Thousands of Buddhas carved into the rock walls. |
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| Teddy loved the caves! |
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| An elephant drawn on the ceiling of the cave. |
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| The outside of the cave complex. |
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| A beautiful tree outside of the cave complex. |
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| The tree was filled with monkeys! |
As we walked down the mountain back to the parking lot we walked past the largest seated golden Buddha in the world. Pretty cool, huh?
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| From the front. |
After we finished at the cave temple complex and checked into our hotel, Ripley started acting very strange. He began running a fever and nothing we did for him brought his temperature down. Ripley and I ended up in the emergency room in a very rudimentary field hospital. We stayed there into the night but decided at 3am to return to the hotel to be in the air conditioning and have a working bathroom (things the field hospital didn't have).
We were planning on visiting the city of Sigiriya the next day but we cut our visit short and returned to the capital to be closer to a more modern hospital in case Ripley got any sicker.
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