Close proximity to the international airport ensures that the long sandy beaches of the Negombo coast have become one of the most popular beach resorts in the island. The town is often used as a staging post at the start or the end of a Sri Lanka tour as well as for a convenient beach holiday with minimal travel. But there are more to the north & norteast of Negombo than Negombo’s tempting stretch of beach. The area stretching from Negombo to Puttalam and inland up to Kurunegala, has a varied and enchanting landscape: tranquil blue lagoons, scattered little islands, inland wetlands, paddy fields and Coconut plantations.