28/04/2018
🌴Beaches In Sri Lanka🌴
👉1. Negombo
✔ The beach is closest to Bandaranaike Airport (7 km), which in turn is 30 km north of the capital of Colombo. The beach is suitable for those who want to immediately plunge into the Indian Ocean upon arrival, to rest from the flight. The long sandy strip of Negombo beach is wide. There are many places, but unfortunately, umbrellas and sun loungers are offered mainly only to those who stayed at the coastal hotel.
✔From the sights in the neighborhood: you can visit the Muturudavel reserve, which is home to about 200 species of plants and animals. The main historical values of Negombo are the old Dutch fort and the Church of the Virgin Mary. For diving enthusiasts there is a sunken ship and coral reefs.
👉2. Mount Lavinia
✔The next beach is located 12 km from Colombo and 45 km from the airport, in the same name of Mount Lavinia. This beach is also strategically suitable for those who are going to travel to Sri Lanka or vice versa, to rest before the flight home.
✔The Beach of Lavinia is a wide and long sandy strip. Umbrellas and sun loungers are on the territory of hotels. Sunset in the water is fast. The current here is volatile. It is possible to encounter rip-currents (they are also called leakage currents).
✔Mount Lavinia is a historic town built by the British. From the surviving buildings stands the Mount Lavinia Hotel. Previously, it was a governor's house built for the mistress of Governor Lavinia. Hence the name of the resort itself.
👉3. Bentota
✔The resort is 80 km from Colombo and offers tourists a chic long beach with golden sands. The infrastructure is well developed. The beach is romantic; is popular among lovers. Here often stay newlyweds and spend a honeymoon.
✔ Benton is located in a place where the Bentota Ganges River flows into the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the resort is divided into two parts. A quiet cape in the north is Paradise beach, and the southern beach where all the entertainment, cafes and restaurants are gathered.
✔The resort has the largest water sports center and a diving club. Here you can rent water skiing, catamaran, scooter, canoe, surfboard.
✔From the sights: a tour of the ruins of the Galapata Vihara complex, a boat trip along the Bentota Ganges River. At 3 km from the resort there is a turtle farm. To go here is worthwhile - you will see how little funny turtles are bred.
👉4. Hikkaduwa
✔Hikkaduva combines an excellent beach strip, a large selection of housing, developed infrastructure and entertainment. In the northern part of the city there is a railway and bus station; A market where you can buy fruits and seafood.
✔A large selection of umbrellas and sun beds is available on Narigama Beach, next to the Ritas Hotel and Blue Moon Restaurant. In some places, even large double topstones with a roof. Less waves in the lagoon near the hotel Coral Sands. In the evening on the beach party parties are arranged. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly.
✔From entertainment: 50 meters from the coast there is a coral reef, a good place for snorkeling. You can also take a surfboard and catch a wave. In the lagoon, the turtles come. You can try to feed them.
👉5. Unawatuna
✔Ideal place for rest with children and for the elderly. Thanks to the lagoon, there are practically no waves. Sunset in the water is easy and pleasant. The infrastructure is developed, there are cafes and restaurants along the entire coast. They also offer sun loungers and umbrellas. There are different shops and diving centers.
✔ From entertainment: you can do snorkeling, diving (there are several sunken ships and coral reefs), fishing from the boat.
👉6. Koggalla
✔The small resort is located 12 km from Halle. Kogalla has a five-kilometer beach. There is a good choice of hotels from 5 stars to guesthouses. Here, tourists with children, lovers, newlyweds, diving lovers like to relax (there are diving centers on the coast)
✔The feature of Cogalla in the lake of the same name. It was chosen by birds, ecotourism fans and pilgrims who seek to visit the ancient Buddhist sanctuaries once built by hermits.
Entertainment: anyone interested in life and history of Sri Lanka, can visit the Museum of Folk Art and Culture.
👉7. Weligama
✔The next to Coglałla beach is Veligama. It is located in a picturesque bay with golden sand. The waves are 300-400 meters from the shore. There surf the wave surfers. The beach almost does not reach the beach. The hotels are all along the coast. The choice is great, on any wallet.
✔The peculiarity of the resort is the world famous fishermen, who fish, sitting on large fat sticks. They climb to their pole, sit on the crossbar, sit and fish. Caught fish can be bought. Fishermen are a kind of show for tourists. By the way, on the beach offer for a small fee themselves try to fish in such an exotic way.
✔From entertainment: walk around the city itself, on its streets you will meet colonial mansions, Buddhist dagobas, Catholic churches.
👉8. Mirissa
✔ Beautiful beach in the lagoon with excellent sunset. In the main lagoon there are waves. In the third