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Vessagiriya

South of the Isurumuniya Vihara are the faint remains of the Vessagiriya cave monastery, a series of evocative, gravity-defying boulder overhangs etched with inscriptions and water channels. You can easily picture monks meditating in their cave retreats here.

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