Negombo
West Coast

Negombo

Twenty minutes from the airport, and worth it.

A fishing town with a Dutch canal running through it, twenty minutes from the airport — where most trips honestly should begin.

Every route we run through the west coast passes Negombo, and the question is never whether to include it but how many nights it earns. Our answer is 1 night — enough to see it at the hour it is worth seeing and still leave in daylight.

Tell a consultant which month you are coming and they will say plainly whether this is the right place for it, or whether the same days are better spent on the other coast.