Pasikudah Trips & Tours

With years of fighting firmly in the past and a revival of tiny little planes flitting in from the international airport, Sri Lanka’s east coast is back in the holiday game. Far, far away from the swanky southwest, both literally and figuratively, it is (for the moment) incredibly quiet and away from the madding crowds. Names to mention along the sweeping bay include Pasikudah, a small town smack bang in the centre of the coastline, with a good name for diving and water sports in the bathtub-warm waters. A mere 2 kilometres away is Kalkudah, serious Robinson Crusoe territory where the beaches are wild, golden and untamed and the few hotels are organic and laidback. Then, a little further south, you’ll stumble across Batticaloa, a Tamil town of colourful temples, lagoons and a smattering of colonial sights that is definitely worth a potter.