Bentota is located 64km south of Colombo in the South-western
coastal belt of Sri Lanka.
CMB Colombo Banadaranayake Airport at Katuanyake, Negombo being 37km north of the
heart of city of Colombo, Bentota is 101km south of the
airport.
Bentota town
Just across the Bentota Bridge over the River Bentara also called River
Bentota Ganga is the coastal town of Bentota.
Bentota is a very pretty rural area: the greenery of the landscape is
especially striking. Most of the areas are well shaded and sheltered by tall
trees with the coconut palm tress dominating the landscape.
Importance of Bentota
Bentota is the prime beach resort of the south-western and southern coastal
belts of Sri Lanka.
South of the city of Colombo, the city of Kalutara with its fine
beach is the gateway to south western and southern bay beaches. Kalutara is the
next popular beach. The Beruwala Bay Beach
that is just before reaching Aluthgama at the Bentota
Bridge and Bentota Bay
Beach just over the
bridge are the most popular twin beaches in the coast. The coast to the further
south and onwards to the Deep South too is
replete with lovely topical beaches.
However, Bentota
Bay Beach, being encompassed in
Bentota National Holiday Resort Complex that features a fully-fledged support
and serve infrastructure, is the most popular beach resort of Sri Lanka. With
an array of luxury hotels, facilities and amenities for the foreign tourists,
Bentota provides the perfect location for extended holidays at the beach.
Furthermore, for the lovers of water sports, Bentota, in addition to its
pristine palm fringed beach, brings in still more pleasures nowhere else to be
found, by virtue of River Bentota Ganga and Bentota lagoon.
Calm seas during the season from November to April make Bentota Beach ideal for snorkeling, diving, sailing, wind surfing,
water-skiing, and deep-sea fishing on a traditional outrigger canoe. Bentota
enriched with safe swimming conditions in the season combined with fun water
sport and exciting excursions that set up an ideal background for a relaxed
holiday in Sri Lanka,
is an attraction for the families. The accommodation options at Bentota ranges
from 5 star luxury to midrange and budget.
Bentota River, Bentota Lagoon and River Bentara
River Bentara, the legendary river at Bentota flows into the Indian
Ocean forming a lagoon at the last section of the river. River
Bentara and lagoon set up the widest array of water sports among all the beach
resorts of Sri Lanka:
Jet-ski, windsurf, parasail or enjoy a romantic river safari.
Bentota
Bay Beach
Bentota Bay
Beach resort that lies sandwiched between the turquoise waters of the sea and
the lagoon is endowed with a stunning landscape of greenery and exceptional
recreational facilities. Bentota is the most popular location for romantic
weddings; it witnesses hundreds of weddings of locals as well as the foreigners
year in, year out. Bentota is also an attraction of honeymooning couples, once
again to Sri Lankans as well as to the foreigners. At the northern end of the
beach, is the long and narrow estuary called "Paradise Island".
At the southern end is the pristine palm fringed broad beach.
Sri Lanka's most popular beach affords all the opportunities to the water sport
enthusiasts to enjoy with swimming, body-surfing, diving and a range of water
sports at the river and lagoon as well as on the Bentota Beach.
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