Sri Lanka - Day 1 - Negombo

Survived the overnight flight from AD, and stopped off at a 'rest' hotel to relax and have breakfast. After a small city tour, we were upgraded to a hotel on the lagoon with a long 100m pool.

Being one of the major tourist beach resorts of the island, this lively town is mainly
inhabited by the fisher-folk. This is also one of the strongholds of the catholic community of Sri Lanka and quietly correctly considered as the “Little Rome”, located along the picturesque Negombo lagoon, along which hundreds of fishing boats and catamarans could be seen most of the time. The Town is dotted with several churches, some dating from the earliest colonial times.
Sightseeing in Negombo includes the remains of the Old Dutch Fortress from 1678, the Dutch Canal constructed for the transportation of Cinnamon, St. Mary’s Church and the Old Dutch Cemetery, and naturally, the Negombo Fish Market –more famously known as the “Lellama”.

This blip is of the fish drying out on the beach near the market.