SHARE TRAVEL NEWS: See the beautiful Sri Lanka’s Southern Beaches

Stilt Fisherman, near Weligama, Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka’s southern coast is lined with beautiful, tropical paradise beaches, some unspoiled and some more spoilt. Each of Sri Lanka’s southern beaches caters to a different crowd, type of traveller and/or budget but all do check the box of clean sands, turquoise blue waters and are lined by tall palm trees which gently sway in the afternoon breeze. With regular buses flying up and down the main road which runs along the south coast, getting from beach to beach doesn’t take very long and so beach hopping along Sri Lanka’s south coast is a great way to see a variety of beaches in a short space of time. Here we have created a short guide to Sri Lanka’s Southern Beaches.

Sri Lanka’s Southern Beaches: Hikkaduwa

Starting from the south west the first beach you encounter is Hikkaduwa, the most built up and developed of Sri Lanka’s beaches. If it’s a typical ‘fun in the sun’ type atmosphere you are looking for, lazing on the beach all day and out in the bars late at night, with a good choice of (mediocre) restaurants then this is the spot! Hikkaduwa in our opinion has lost it’s charm and has become over run with package holiday tourists, tuk-tuk drivers trying to get your attention and shops selling overpriced tourist tat ... keep reading ...http://bit.ly/2jTu4wt