Mihintale half-day add-on from an Anuradhapura base worth it
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Adam Brooks•223 rep7
Based in Anuradhapura for two nights. Is a Mihintale half-day add-on worth it after a quiet sacred-city day, or does it feel like one climb too many.
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Worth it if legs are fresh and you go late afternoon for softer light. Skip it if the sacred city already wiped the kids.
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Menaka Dissanayake•1554 rep6
Treat Mihintale as optional spice, not mandatory completionism. One good climb beats two exhausted ones.
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Roshan Karunaratne•1398 rep3
We did it the morning after a short Anuradhapura loop and it felt right — not the same afternoon.
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