climbed Sigiriya and the thing that haunts me is the plumbing, not the view

Everyone goes to Sigiriya (Lion Rock, near Dambulla, Sri Lanka) for the frescoes and the lion-paw gate. King Kashyapa built his capital on a 180m granite plug around 477–495 CE, then it became a monastery. The painted ladies up the rock face, the mirror wall polished with lime+egg-white+honey that s……