When doing homework, the Lion Rock was a mixed bag. Some people said it was very good, while others said it was not worth visiting. Personally, I think the Lion Rock is worth visiting. Except for the big rock, the scenery below the Lion Rock is similar to Angkor, but more primitive and rural than Angkor, like the relationship between the countryside and a small town.

White water birds can be seen at any time, which is more natural. But in terms of ruins, it is definitely not as magnificent as Angkor.

You must go to the top of the mountain and see the murals. If you just look at the big rock below, it's really meaningless. It's better not to come. The ticket office of Lion Rock also has a moat. What do you think of?

Yes, it is Angkor. It is very similar. It is not like Egypt, but it is like Angkor.

Let me tell you about the story of Lion Rock as understood by Yunluo. There are too many versions, but Yunluo currently knows four.

Yunluo combined these four stories to tell the story of a man who killed his father and was avenged. (Some say the man was a prince; others say the princess's husband; and still others say the prince's grandfather was the lion.) The man killed his own father (or father-in-law).

On this big rock, he built a palace and a kingdom. It is said that he even built the bodies of the murdered people into the palace. Later, he was avenged by his brother! In the end, he died in the palace. Yunluo prefers to believe the tragic ending: the king died on Lion Rock while riding his elephant, and he was still standing when he died.

To put it simply, there was a country on the Lion Rock, and then it fought a war, was defeated, and fell. What Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo are seeing now are the ruins of the past. As for which one is the palace and which one is the bathing pool, you can research it yourself?

After leaving Lion Rock and heading to Dambulla, Tyron suddenly asked Nalanshiqi and Yunluo if they wanted to see the big lake. This was not in the itinerary.

Yunluo remembered that in his travel notes before the trip, he had read about a lake with a tree house and people who could climb up to the tree house. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were of course.

When we got there, we realized it was not the lake with the tree house. It was the other side, but Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were still very moved. The road to the lake was not easy to walk, and there was a short section of diagonal road. Tyron said that many drivers were unwilling to take such a road.

Tyron was also surprised that Yunluo knew about the incident with the Chinese tourists two years ago. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo told him that this was the power of the Internet. Your good and bad deeds will be known by others.

It was quite a surprise when we arrived at the lake. There were many dead trees growing in the lake. Some of them were like Changpinggou in Siguniang Mountain, but more majestic and open than Siguniang Mountain. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were playing with mimosa here and saw a snake.

Leaving the big lake, we continued to Dambulla and entered a small shop in the Dambulla area at 12:30 noon, where Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo started their first local meal in Lanka.

The restaurant is small, with small black pots that are not much bigger than the small casserole pots in the stalls, covered with newspapers. This is the local people's meal, the local buffet. There are some curry meats and vegetables in it.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo felt it was unhygienic after reading the newspaper, so they asked for a la carte. After Tyron's communication, they finally ordered four portions of fried rice, two vegetarian and two chicken. They waited for more than 40 minutes before everything was served.

In addition to friends, Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and others were all satisfied with the lunch. They were satisfied as long as it filled their stomachs and was not so disgusting that they could not swallow it.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo also ordered fruit juice, which came with a big ice cream ball. It was a bit like Cambodian shake, but the taste was a world away. The first bite was good, but it was hard to finish it all. Let's take a look at the surroundings of the store.

After seeing many photos before the trip, Yunluo always thought that Dambulla was a newly built man-made golden Buddha. But when he arrived, he realized that the real Dambulla is a pure Buddhist cave.

I once wanted to give up this place. Yunluo was not interested in the newly built attractions. But in fact, the golden Buddha is the ticket office. The real Dambulla is a white cave on the hill. You can reach the cave from the ticket office through the golden Buddha.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo took another route. Tyron drove the car to the middle of the mountain and took Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to take another route that the locals took, which could save some effort and the environment was more natural.

There was a small door there, and lotus flowers for worship were sold at the door. Each one cost 100 rupees. Tyron gave Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo 100 rupees and asked them to help him put a gift on the gift. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo also bought one themselves.

Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country, but it is rarely as popular as in China. You can smell the incense and see the smoke from burning incense from a distance.

Flowers are used everywhere, white, beautiful, and fragrant. Who told Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo that the country is so vast and rich in resources? Where can you find so many flowers in the north? Even in the south, the places where flowers are grown are used to build houses. It is too expensive to use flowers to worship Buddha. There are few incense outside, but the table is full of flowers inside.

After the ceremony, Fonalan Shiqi and Yunluo took a rest under a big tree. By chance, a Japanese tour group came and the quiet immediately turned noisy.

Japanese people are really noisy. It's the same in Africa. Many people line up to see the animals. As long as you hear a "wa wa" sound, it must be a car full of Japanese people.

One of the Japanese female tourists knelt on the stone ground without bending her legs. As she knelt, Yunluo immediately felt that her knee was injured.

Yunluo thought she was going to worship the Buddha devoutly, but she saw the lady kneeling down to fix her hair, and stood up again after 3-5 minutes. Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and the other two were stunned. Note the diving socks on Yunluo and her friend's feet. Later, when it rained at the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, the diving socks came in handy.

There are many monkeys here, and they can be seen everywhere and at any time. The monkeys here are not afraid of people, but they don't chase people or ask people for things. It can be seen that this is the result of the friendly coexistence between the local residents and the animals.

Whenever Yunluo saw monkeys in other countries, he would think of the vicious monkeys on Mount Emei, and the staff of the monkey mountain who encouraged the monkeys to ask people for food, then knocked over the food, picked it up and continued to sell it, and the crowds of tourists who gathered around the monkeys to watch. The contrast was quite strong.

Look at this monkey's hairstyle. Isn't it handsome? This was taken in front of the cave.

After getting down the mountain, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo went back to the ticket office and had afternoon tea, spending only 230 rupees for the four of them.

Everyone in the shop smiled at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. Perhaps the scenery of Lanka can be found elsewhere, but the friendliness of the people of Lanka, the friendliness from the heart at any time and anywhere, brings a touching feeling that can never be achieved anywhere else.

Nalan Shiqi asked for a glass of fruit juice from the refrigerator whose name no one knew, which kept Tyron busy for the whole afternoon. Two hours after leaving, he was still calling his friend to ask the name of the fruit.

Heading to Kandy, when Nalanshiqi and Yunluo began to feel sleepy, Tyron parked the car in front of an Indian temple. A friend had asked him if there was an Indian temple, so Tyron brought Nalanshiqi and Yunluo here.

The nearby restroom was under repair. The construction workers let Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo use their own restroom, smiling kindly everywhere.

A music teacher was rehearsing vocal music for the children in the small auditorium. The sound was beautiful and soothing. The children looked at Yunluo shyly with their beautiful eyes. Yunluo took a DV and quietly recorded this scene.

Turning around and looking up, I saw green mountains in front of me, with clouds and mist lingering on the hillside; there was a rainbow hanging on the top of the temple. Although there is no video record, the small and beautiful scenes during the trip happened just like this.

Nalanshiqi and Yunluo spent a lot of time in the Indian temple. It took nearly an hour. At 6 pm, Nalanshiqi and Yunluo arrived in Kandy. As they approached Kandy, there were obviously more cars and a small traffic jam began. It was very noisy.

In the midst of the noise, a boy in the pickup truck ahead was putting on a show, entertaining Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo all the way, making the traffic jam in Kandy less annoying.

After entering Kandy, Nalanshiqi and Yunluo went straight to the Temple of the Tooth Relic. Time was tight, so Nalanshiqi and Yunluo took some photos along the way, only these two.

Kandy Lake. There are many hotels on the mountain opposite. The hotel that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo will stay in at night is also on such a mountain.

Kandy is the second largest city in Lanka after Colombo. Compared with Colombo, it is a less modern small city in the central mountainous area surrounded by green; the cool and humid air is more pleasant than Colombo.

The Temple of the Tooth Relic of Buddha, which houses the relics of the Buddha Sakyamuni, attracts countless believers. Tickets for the Temple of the Tooth Relic of Buddha are 1,000 rupees per person.

The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple is quiet and beautiful at dusk, and should be appreciated slowly. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were in a hurry to catch the 6:30 almsgiving ceremony, which was a bit regrettable.

The Tamil Tigers once carried out suicide attacks at the Temple of the Tooth Relic, and now security is very strict. You used to be able to drive to the white entrance in the picture below. Now you have to walk a distance and then go through security.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

After visiting the first floor, you can watch a performance and then go to the second floor to queue up early. You can't see the Buddha's tooth clearly, you can only see the golden light inside, which is dazzling. You can't record or take pictures.

The Temple of the Tooth Relic is indeed the greatest temple in Lanka. At this dinner time, there is an endless stream of believers and tourists coming here.

In a short while, the line of people who came to see the tooth of the Buddha stretched to the first floor. In these lines, whether they were for piety or for fun, there was always some annoying behavior, that is, queue-jumping, whether it was European or Asian, queue-jumping was always happening.

However, these could not affect the true believers. Some men in white shirts and white pants, women and children in white shirts and white skirts, sat or kneeled facing the Buddha's tooth, with their hands clasped together, chanting scriptures, no matter who was standing around or in front of them.

It was almost eight o'clock when we finished visiting the Buddha's tooth, and it started to drizzle outside.

My stomach was growling and I needed to use the restroom. I wanted to leave but was reluctant to do so. I found the museum. There was a restroom for foreigners inside the museum's big iron gate.

When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo found it, the museum was closed and the restroom for foreigners was locked. Don't worry, just walk a little further up the hill and you will see the restroom for locals.

If it's late, don't worry, just ask the staff and they will be happy to help you.

The staff member we met at the museum learned that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were from China, so he said in Chinese, "Hello. Lingguang Temple" (Lingguang Temple in Beijing enshrines another tooth relic of the Buddha)

I like this tune very much. I saw it from a distance and asked Nalan Seqi to pat it regardless of my urgency. Under the Bodhi tree here, Yunluo picked up a few pieces of Bodhi and brought them back to the capital.

Of course, when Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and the other three left the Buddha Tooth Temple hungry, they met Tyron who had been waiting for a long time at the exit.

Knowing that there are two Chinese restaurants in Kandy, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo agreed early on to treat Tyron to Chinese food in Kandy.

One of these two Chinese restaurants is King Prawn Restaurant recommended by LP; the other one is called Beijing Restaurant, which is close to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.

When Tyron asked Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo for their opinions, the hungry Yunluo had already thrown the recommendations on the LP behind his ears and naturally chose this "Beijing Restaurant". He made a mistake, but the department also recognized some people clearly and it served as a lesson for students who would go there again.

Tyron led the way (while waiting for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, he asked the locals around and found out the approximate locations of the two restaurants). Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and four others excitedly entered the restaurant with a red light.

In a foreign country, I always feel particularly friendly towards Chinese restaurants opened by Chinese people, and they always leave a particularly good impression. But this time was an exception.

The boss was a Taiwanese with a small chin. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo knew it from the moment he greeted them.

But I am a genuine fellow villager.

As for ordering food, the prices are definitely very high in Sri Lanka, comparable to those in Beijing.

When Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were almost done eating, the boss from the same hometown came upstairs to chat. Perhaps if they hadn't chatted, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo wouldn't have been so dissatisfied with the boss.

First of all, we met each other as relatives. The boss said that he had been in Lanka for nine years and had met people from all over the country, but this was the first time he met someone from TJ.

Then they talked about the street where they used to live and the school they used to go to. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo had been away from their hometown for more than ten years, so they felt very close to each other. Everyone had a smile on their face.

Then when the boss said the following words, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's smiles gradually faded. When one sentence came out, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were both speechless and the atmosphere became awkward, each looking at the plate in front of them.

The following is the boss's quote: When you hire a driver, give them a few hundred rupees, let them eat whatever they like, and even sit at the table with the owner, which is really a great honor for them. You will be stuck with them in the future and can't get rid of them even if you want to. (Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's driver only let Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo treat him to this meal, and later the driver even treated Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo) (To be continued..)