Sigiriya rises from the jungle on the hardened throat of a dead volcano, a 1500 year old citadel stained by murder, vengeance and royal paranoia. The usurper King Kashyapa seized his father's throne and transformed this monolith into a palace in the clouds, guarded by moats, crushing boulders and the enormous jaws of a brick lion. For 18 years, he lived above the kingdom he had stolen, consumed by fear as he watched the plains below, until the blood he had spilled finally cau