Negombo with its alluring wide sandy beaches and the cool breeze which wafts over the placid waters of the lagoon is one of the many reasons for this coastal city to be acclaimed as being a popular ...

I met Jude, a tuk-tuk driver, outside my hotel, in Negombo, a beach town about twenty miles north of the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, on Monday morning, and asked him to take me to St. Sebastian’s.

Popularly known as ‘Little Rome’, Negombo, with its Portuguese and Dutch roots, was an important trading post since ancient times and a thriving tourism hub since the early 1960s. It once held a top ...

Negombo’s Lewis Place has the tentative swagger of a teenager who has finally come of age – a teenager in the throes of change, wondering where to fit in. With its proximity to Colombo (38 km) and the ...

The largest island in the Bay of Naples, Ischia is renowned for its mineral-rich thermal waters, which attract Italians and tourists looking for rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. That makes Ischia ...

St Sebastian’s church in Negombo, a Catholic-dominated town, was one of the locations targeted as part of a series of suicide bombings last month that killed more than 250 people. Since the Negombo ...

Negombo Lagoon is characterised by high biodiversity in its flora and fauna. The mangrove community in the lagoon is the most diverse of all mangrove communities in the west coast of Sri Lanka. The ...

This photo taken on March 26, 2025 shows dried fishes being arranged neatly on a beach in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Located more than 30 kilometers north of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, Negombo is ...

Wherever you go in Sri Lanka, you will find Tamil. Its status as one of the official languages means it is on the currency, official signage and government notifications. Almost one in four Sri ...

Heritance Negombo, a distinguished property under Aitken Spence Hotels portfolio, recently announced its strategic franchise partnership with Sentido of DER Touristik Hotels & Resorts GMBH. Commencing ...

Sri Lanka has imposed a curfew in the city of Negombo, site of one of the Easter Sunday bombings, to contain religious violence. Tensions gripped Negombo on Sunday as fighting erupted between ethnic ...