Cidade de Hikkaduwa

Hikkaduwa é uma cidade turística costeira no sudoeste do Sri Lanka. É conhecida por suas fortes ondas e belas praias, incluindo a Praia de Hikkaduwa, cercada por palmeiras e repleta de restaurantes e bares. As águas rasas em frente à Praia de Hikkaduwa abrigam o Parque Nacional de Hikkaduwa, que é um santuário de corais e lar de tartarugas marinhas e peixes exóticos. No interior encontra-se o Gangarama Maha Vihara, um templo budista decorado com murais pintados à mão.

Praia de Hikkaduwa

Em 1940, os ilhéus rochosos de Hikkaduwa foram declarados santuários e a proteção foi limitada às fronteiras terrestres desses ilhéus rochosos. Em 1998, a área foi elevada ao status de reserva natural e posteriormente a parque nacional. Os famosos Coral Gardens e o Santuário de Aves de Telwatte são as principais atrações de Hikkaduwa, que fica a 98 km de Colombo. Turistas estrangeiros e locais visitam o local para ver os famosos jardins de corais de Hikkaduwa. Para os visitantes que não desejam entrar na água, há barcos com fundo de vidro disponíveis, enquanto outros praticam snorkeling para alcançar os recifes repletos de corais coloridos e rica vida marinha.

Hikkaduwa também é apresentada no TripAdvisor, Viator e GetYourGuide.

About Galle District

Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo. Galle is the best example of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and Southeast Asia, showing the interaction between European architectural styles and south Asian traditions. The Galle fort is a world heritage site and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers.

Galle is a sizeable town, by Sri Lankan standards, and has a population of 91,000, the majority of whom are of Sinhalese ethnicity. There is also a large Sri Lankan Moor minority, particularly in the fort area, which descend from Arab merchants that settled in the ancient port of Galle.

About Southern Province

The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. Subsistence farming and fishing is the main source of income for the vast majority of the people of this region.

Important landmarks of the Southern Province include the wildlife sanctuaries of  the Yala and Udawalawe National Parks, the holy city of Kataragama, and the ancient cities of Tissamaharama, Kirinda and Galle. (Although Galle is an ancient city, almost nothing survives from before the Portuguese invasion.) During the Portuguese period there were two famous Sinhalese poets called Andare who was from Dickwella and Gajaman Nona who was from Denipitiya in Matara District, composing poems on common man.

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