Situated just ten kilometres north of Sri Lanka’s largest and most popular international airport, the Bandaranaike International Airport, Negombo is a popular seaside town for travellers to the country to stop by on their way to or back from other popular tourist destinations on the island. Negombo has quite a few hotels and resorts and if you are looking for a cheap hotel Sri Lanka, you will be spoilt for choice owing to the number of reliable yet cost effective options here. These include accommodation providers such as Hotel J Negombo as well as many others, which are geared to cater to the needs of foreigners to the country. While beach holidays are usually all about having fun in the water, another less obvious advantage of such a holiday is undoubtedly the great food that comes with it!
Those of you that hail from colder regions of the world such as Northern Europe, North America and Canada, may know all too well the hardships of sourcing tasty, fresh seafood that simply explodes with flavour in your mouth with nary more than some light seasoning and a quick toss in the flames. If that is indeed a problem that you have faced back home, then you will be delighted to know that Negombo is the source of some of Sri Lanka’s tastiest seafood hauls! Fresh seafood bounties of prawns, crabs, mullet and tuna are sold almost straight out of the water, at Negombo’s many fish markets. These markets are usually a cacophony of noise and a riot of hearty seafood scents (even the most avid of seafood lovers among you have to agree that many raw fish varieties do tend to smell, well, fishy!), however if you can withstand the veritable multifaceted assault on your senses, you’ll have earned the opportunity to barter for some of the freshest seafood catches out there.
Intrigued by history, art and food, Lavinia Woolf is a writer who is passionate about the extraordinary and writes of the exhilarating and enchanting. Google+
