Every distance is measured from the hotel gate. Every price is what a tuk-tuk actually charges when we call, not what the app quotes. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
The brass-topped Hindu temple on Swami Rock, four hundred feet above the Indian Ocean. Come at first light for the puja and stay for the deer at Fort Frederick on the way down.
A small national park island off Nilaveli with the best snorkelling on the coast. Go on the first boat before the day-trippers arrive; the reef sharks are shy after ten.
The blue-whale window off Trincomalee is short and worth every rupee. We book with two skippers we trust; both keep a hundred-metre distance and turn back if the whale doesn't want the boat there.
Wider than Uppuveli, whiter than Marble, empty most of the year. Walk north from the resort strip for twenty minutes and there is no one at all.
Two minutes on the coast between Uppuveli and Nilaveli — the beach, the reef and the boats that go out before light.
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