I will start from where I left in the first part.
From Pinnawala we went to Sigiriya. It’s around 70 KMS from there. Sigiriya means Lion Rock and its history dates back to over 6000 thousand years. It is one of Sri Lanka’s major attractions and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Well, one has to buy the entry ticket with seems to be slightly expensive. The entry ticket for all the sites is around SRS. 4500/- and fro only palace is SRS. 2500/- (Srilankan Rupee).
King Kasyapa is said to have built a palace, which is 200 mts on the lion rock, at Sigiriya to escape from his brother Mogallana. But it just does not look like a hiding place for a King… It is very beautiful and you just can imagine how beautiful it must have been when it was built. Water gardens are the first architectural marvel that we came across on entering the complex. It had many pools, courtyards, and fountains. I was surprised to found that some of the fountains were still working. We live is the age of science today, but you cannot stop thinking from the marvel of the science used in those days, fountains were designed to work on the principal of gravity, with a tank build in the palace at around 200 mts. I wished, I could have spent more time there sitting and enjoying the sound of flowing water, which gave aesthetic and cooling effect to both body and mind. We also saw some many hoods and caves. The paintings in caves are still well preserved, and are said to be similar to Ajanta & Ellora’s. Reaching on the top was very tiring, with rain making the narrow footsteps very slippery?
By the end of that day, I at least, was almost dead. We moved from Sigiriya to Kandy that night, and none of us had enough energy to speak, the complete route was covered sleeping. We reached Kandy around 9 PM, had a quick hot water bath, which was relaxing and then dinner.The hotel was like a old British bungalow with high ceiling, wooden floor and smell of wood. Next two days we spend roaming around the streets of Kandy, searching for shops with export quality cloths (don’t ask the reason ‘why’, it’s another story). It’s a small town, similar to any hill station in India. We explored some traditional dishes, with names which I do not remember now but most of the dishes were very spicy. So next day we decided to have some pizza, and PizzaHut was there to save us… as always their pizza have some local taste and variety. One of it was pizza biriyani, i.e. biriyany baked inside pizza dough.
Following morning we went to watch ‘Tooth Relic’ temple, which is supposed to have a tooth of Buddha. Tooth Relic temple also have a small but nice museum. The same day we started for Bentota from Kandy. Bentota to Kandy is around 5 hour drive, which will include town and villages on the way. Bentota is on a sea shore and drive in the city along the sea shore is good.
We reached Bentota the same night, took a quick shower and then went straight way to beach. It was a full moon night, and the beach was basking in the glory of the sliver light, with cool breeze going through the hair, it was pure bliss… and adding to that was the effect of wine. We spent next three days on the beach, doing nothing except for the three things – going in the ocean, lying on the beach & eating. Well, we did one more thing and that was snorkeling. It is really fun, as long as you are not afraid of deep sea. To some extent I am afraid so I did not enjoy it to an extent which others did, but even then it was fun. 
