Apalawatta Ambalama (Yatawaka Ambalama)

A wayside shelter at Urapola, by the road, looking over a playing field.

Inside, the seating is built at three different heights. The reading is that this accommodated different social ranks — which, if true, tells you something uncomfortable about a building whose whole principle was that anyone could stop, free, without asking.

Shelter for all travellers. Just not at the same level.