French Garden Tourist Rest

Anuradhapura


Close to the New Bus Station, this two-storey villa-style guesthouse is well set-up for travellers. Its seven rooms are clean, if a little old-fashioned, and have mosquito nets; filling meals are served and the efficient team in charge are spot on.


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1. Vessagiriya

1.17 MILES

South of the Isurumuniya Vihara are the faint remains of the Vessagiriya cave monastery, a series of evocative, gravity-defying boulder overhangs etched…

2. Sandahiru Seya

1.19 MILES

Two thousand years after the first of the great dagobas was constructed, a huge new stupa, the Sandahiru Seya, is rising on the south side of Anuradhapura…

3. Isurumuniya Vihara

1.27 MILES

This charming rock temple, dating from the reign of Devanampiya Tissa (r 307–267 BC), is set around a lovely lotus pond, the corner of which is carved…

4. Royal Pleasure Gardens

1.36 MILES

Known as the Park of the Goldfish, these extensive 2000-year-old royal pleasure gardens cover 14 hectares and contain two ponds skilfully designed to fit…

5. Dakkhina Stupa

1.41 MILES

Most tourists ignore this 2000-year-old stupa, but legend says it holds the cremated remains of King Dutugemunu (r 161–137 BC). It's now mostly used by…

6. Sri Maha Bodhi

1.43 MILES

The sacred bodhi tree is central to Anuradhapura in both a spiritual and physical sense. It was grown from a cutting brought from Bodhgaya in India and is…

7. Lowamahapaya

1.54 MILES

So called because it once had a bronze-tiled roof, the ruins of the 'Brazen Palace' stand close to the bodhi tree. The remains of 1600 columns are all…

8. Jetavanarama Museum

1.57 MILES

A 1937 British colonial building provides a suitably regal venue for some of the treasures found at Jetavanarama. The objects displayed here range from…