Eastern Province (Sri Lanka)

province of Sri Lanka

Eastern Sri Lanka is a province in Sri Lanka.

Cities

  • 🌍 Trincomalee — The Eastern Province's capital. It is also a deep-water naval base
  • 🌍 Batticaloa — the second largest city of the Eastern Province amid sea and lagoons
  • Ampara — the administrative capital of the Ampara District
  • 🌍 Sammanthurai — the administrative capital of the Sammanthurai Area

Other destinations

  • 🌍 Arugam Bay — a popular surfing and tourist destination
  • Passikudah — a crescent-moon bay with shallow water and fringing reefs
  • 🌍 Nilaveli — a long sand strip, quite clean for Lankan standards and well maintained
  • 🌍 Kumana National Park

Understand

Get in

Trains run from Colombo to Trincomalee (7 hours 35 minutes day, 8 hours sleeper, three per day) and Batticaloa (8 hours 40 minutes day, 9 hours sleeper, two per day) but note there is no train directly linking these two cities.

Get around

See

Do

  • Swim in the blue water of Passikudah bay
  • Learn to ride a wave at Arugam Bay
  • Take a boat ride to experience snorkeling around Pigeon Island Island National Park (Nilaveli)
  • Tour the swamps south of Arugam Bay and watch exotic birds and huge crocodiles

Eat

Drink

Stay safe

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