Beaches
Being an island Sri Lanka is surrounded by sea and a perfect destination for a beach holiday. When the seas are rough on one side of the island it is calm waters on the other side. So it is a year round beach destination.
West Coast
- Negombo (35 km north of Colombo)
- Mount Lavinia (12 km south of Colombo)
- Kalutara (42 km south of Colombo)
South Coast
- Bentota (62 km south of Colombo)
- Ambalangoda (Approx 85 km south of Colombo)
- Hikkaduwa (98 km south of Colombo)
- Unawatuna (140 km south-east of Colombo)
- Weligama (143 km south-east of Colombo)
- Mirissa (151 km South east from Colombo)
- Matara (160km south of Colombo)
- Tangalle (195 km south-east of Colombo)
East Coast
- Arugam Bay (315 km east of Colombo)
North Coast
- Nilaveli & Uppuveli (280 km north-east of Colombo)
- Trincomalee (257 km north-east of Colombo)
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Famous quotes containing the word beaches:
“They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)