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Sri Lanka, off the south coast of India, is fringed with
beautiful beaches and has a lively beach culture.
Golf Bayscrem is a romantic beach for all ages where
people come to meet and ultimately fall in love.
Unamatuna is a beautiful golden beach with many small
bars and restaurants to hang out in. Beware of the local beach
boys who prey on tourists for an easy buck.
Weligama sits on the soutern corner of Sri Lanka,
close to the historic city of Galle. The famous german
scientist philosopher Ernst Haekel set up a marine
zoological lab there in the 19th century and called Weligama
place "the lovely gem and the pearl of Taprobane".
It's famous for it's beautiful sun drenched beaches and its
unusual history of stilt fishing. Fishermen wade out
to poles embedded in the seabed which are handed down from
father to son. Nobody knows how or where this strange technique
originated from but it works as the stilts are jealously carved.
Rock carving of Buddhist mythology can be seen in the region's
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