Frescoes painting at Sigiriya... In Sigiriya after short climb, followed by an unexpected metal spiral staircase, brings you to a sheltered gallery of well-preserved frescoes. The colorful painting of 22 beautiful & bejeweled woman, the Damsels of Sigiriya – ladies from the king’s court, or nymph goddesses called apsaras, or personifications of natural phenomena – are all that remains of what some conjecture was a vast narrative mural of more than 500 figures covering the whole western face of the rock. Visit for more www.whynotsrilanka.com