One of the most memorable 'epiphanies' during our visit was witnessing sunset from the top of Isurumuniya Vihara temple, less visited by the throngs of tourists. Its eclectic architecture, accumulating over several empirical periods, houses bat caves, an enormous sleeping Buddha, and a maze of cliff rocks that take you up to the top. At sunset, all the nearby temples resound their chanting, so that they echo through the hills. From the top we could see the Buddhist lesson taking place below, by one of the fish ponds. Only when turning around to see the sunset did we realise the temple was built below the enormous Tissa Wewa, irrigation tank.
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