Location: Ambalangoda is located 94km south of Colombo, in the south western coastal belt of Sri Lanka.
Reaching Ambalangoda: Ambalangoda can be reached by Colombo-Galle main motor road as well as by southern railway line.
Setting: Ambalangoda is a fishing village in the south western coastal belt of Sri Lanka, located 25 km south of Bentota National Holiday Resort.
Ambalangoda Beach: Ambalangoda has its own fine swathe of pristine beach. However Ambalangoda beach is overshadowed by the stretches of beaches with superior hotels to the north as well as to the south.
Handicrafts at Ambalangoda: Ambalangoda is Sri Lanka's prime production center of vibrant and colorful wooden masks, some comical, others ferocious, carved off light and soft balsa wood called "Kaduru" in Sri Lanka. In the bygone days those wooden masks were used in ceremonies of exorcism. Today those masks are produced mainly as souvenirs for the tourists.
Nearby places
13 places within about 25 km, nearest first.
- Ambalangoda Mask Factory and Museumunder 1 km
- Gare d'Ambalangodaunder 1 km
- Lanka Masks, Ambalangodaunder 1 km
- Dutch Stables Ambalangodaunder 1 km
- Ambalangoda Beachunder 1 km
- Kandegoda Railway Stationunder 1 km
- Telwatte Railway Station1 km
- Dodanduwa2 km
- Benthara Galpatha Viharaya2 km
- Madampagama Railway Station2 km
- Thotagamuwa Rajamaha viharaya4 km
- Jonction des ateliers de céramique4 km
- Lagoon Safari7 km
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