Modern Day Trinco
I have written about Trincomalee in the past but feel that I should cover this intriguing coastal town a bit more in detail, touching on the new attractions and sites to do and see while there. Trincomalee (popularly refered to as Trinco) is the largest city in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and is […]
BATTICALOA AND THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF SRI LANKA
Batticaloa, a farely large town on the east coast, is famed for its singing fish. It is surrounded by a massive lagoon where a unique network of canals and waterways created from up-country rivers flow down towards the sea. There is controversy about the source of the sounds from this lagoon, which are heard very clearly between […]
EAST COAST PERFECT BEACHES
The small fishing villages of Nilaveli and Uppuveli, were savaged by the tsunami, but the wide stretches of soft white sand are once again stunning locations for bathing and basking. Only a few hotels survived the ups and downs of both the ethnic conflict and the force of nature. From here you can hire a […]
SWAMI ROCK – Trincomalee
Swami Rock, also known locally as Lover’s Leap, on account of a Dutch official’s daughter, Francina Van Reede, who threw herself off the rock after watching her unfaithful husband desert her by sea. Although her suicide attempt was unsuccessful, and she went on to marry for a second time eight years after her near-fatal fall, […]
TRINCOMALEE
Trincomalee derives its name from the Tamil words tiru-kona-nralai, meaning mountain sacred to Konesvara. This famous harbor, one of the largest and best-sheltered in the world, has at various times been the envy of the Danes, Dutch, Portuguese, British, French and Japanese, and during World War II it became a naval base to protect the […]
