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Best protected site“Sigiria is listed in the world heritage sites and ‘one of the best protected sites of UNESCO’. more-inThe Buddhist heritage sites in the Visakhapatnam region have the potential to draw tourists from across the globe. Greater scopeVisakhapatnam, having direct flights from Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, has greater scope to attract Buddhist tourists from those countries. The delegation visited the Buddhist sites at Nagarjunakonda and Amaravati near Guntur and Vijayawada on January 18 and 19. “The 2000-year-old Buddhist heritage site of Bojjannakonda, near Anakapalle, is a ‘gold mine’ and it should be protected and preserved..