Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

The rock and the stairway.

Looking down an old well in the premises.

Monkey on an old defensive wall built of stones.

A dried up defensive moat between the stone walls.

Engravings in granite, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

Top of a door-post

The Lion and the 'Gaja-singha' statues.

Engravings on the upper part of the walls.

Artifacts, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

The 'Chinese Lion'.

Dancers carved in stone.

Dancers.

Musicians.

Note the idealized female figure of the 12th Century - Large breasts, narrow waists and wide hips.

Artifacts at Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

Base of a stone pillar

Coming down from the rock, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

In sylvan surroundings while climbing down.

A series of holes has been bored into the side of a granite hillock. This could be the remnant of an old technology to break the rock. A series of holes were made into the granite. Wooden pegs were then hammered into the holes. Water was poured onto the wooden pegs. The wooden pegs would soak up the water swell up and break the rock in a cleavage plane. The work on the rock has apparently been abandoned.

Foundations of a ruined building.