Hikkaduwa turtles where. Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka - a detailed overview of the beach and city. Our photos and reviews. Accommodation in Hikkaduwa - hotels, guesthouses, houses

Hikkaduwa is definitely one of the best resorts in Sri Lanka. We did not regret at all that we lived in Hikkaduwa for 5 wonderful days. We immediately fell in love with this village and did not want to leave for any other place. The town is stretched along the beach, it is difficult to say where exactly it ends and where it begins, everything is nearby, beautiful and convenient for vacationers.

Hikkaduwa beach photo

Hikkaduwa beach

The beach in Hikkaduwa is huge and beautiful. This is one of the best. It consists of several conventional parts, which can be designated as center and south. You can swim on the beach, but not everywhere, because in the southern part there are always big waves, a joy for surfers, and somewhere there are fishing boats. I will begin to describe the beach in order from the northern part, which is closer to the bus and railway station. In this part of the beach there are practically no sun loungers for tourists; everyone lies either on the sand or on a towel.

Hotels in Hikkaduwa

• Hikka Tranz by Cinnamon

All hotels in Hikkaduwa

Photo at the very beginning of the beach


This part of the beach is mostly visited by locals.

Hikkaduwa beach Sri Lanka


Northern part of the beach

There are practically no tourists in this part of the beach; most vacationers are Sri Lankans. Although, there are a couple of hotels on the first line nearby. All Russian and European tourists go swimming closer to the Hikka Tranz Hikkaduwa hotel. There is the most convenient place for swimming.

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Photo of a street in the northern part of the city. In the distance there is a bus station, a bank and a tuk-tuk parking lot

There are several rural supermarkets. The choice of products is not very wide, but you can find everything basic. The largest is Sandagiri Food City, located opposite the Citrus Hotel. There are small stalls along the road, but everything is very scarce there, except for water, soda, cookies, and regular food. Those who live with their own kitchen can go to Halle by bus to buy groceries.

Alcohol is sold in separate stores - Wine Stores. There are 3 liquor stores in Hikka. In the north, in the center near the Hikka Trans hotel and opposite the Citrus hotel in the same building as the Sandagiri supermarket. Beer, wine, vodka, arak and any other alcohol can be bought only in these stores. This is what an alcohol shop looks like:

Cafes and restaurants: you won't go hungry

We liked the restaurants and cafes for tourists in the city, we never got food poisoning, and we enjoyed eating everything we ordered. There are plenty of cafes along the main road. We especially liked the pizza at the Sea View restaurant, which they really know how to cook.

For two of us, the average bill in a cafe was approximately 2,500 rupees ($15 / 950 rubles). The owner of the establishment told us that he worked as a chef in Italy for 3 years. Our friends, who had just recently visited Italy, confirmed that the pizza was prepared purely in Italian style. In the next photo, our restaurant bill for five with alcohol was about 8,000 rupees ($50).

In 2018, we went to this restaurant again, it’s still just as cool, the food is just as fast and delicious. There are 2 modest women working and no one calls you from the street. There is a Russian menu. We recommend. Cafe on the map.

Accommodation in Hikkaduwa - hotels, guesthouses, houses

This is a fairly popular holiday destination in Sri Lanka. There are many 3-5 star hotels on the coast; a little further, behind the road, on the second and third “lines”, there are budget guesthouses.

We have stayed in Hikka twice. Our hotels were booked in advance on Booking.com. The first time we lived in an inexpensive guesthouse. A budget option. We recommend it to anyone planning to stay for a while. Although the guest house is called 1 star, it is worth a good three and the prices are very reasonable. Also with a swimming pool. For 5 days of stay we paid about $100.

The second time we stayed at Kai Hikkaduwa Hotel. This is a new hotel, opened in 2018. Located across the street from the Citrus Hotel, a couple of minutes from the ocean. For $65 per night with breakfast we stayed in a modern room. The hotel has a rooftop pool. So, we can also recommend Kai Hotel based on our experience. Other hotels with good reviews:

Good quality hotels in Hikkaduwa

Hikka Tranz by Cinnamon (Chaaya Tranz) One of the best hotels. Ocean view rooms. Located on the first line. booking.com rating 8 out of 10

Another great hotel right next to the sea. Rating 7.9

Hotel with a rooftop pool 5 minutes walk from the ocean. Rating 8.9

Cheap hotels and guesthouses

Decent inexpensive hotel. We stayed there for 5 days. There is a swimming pool! Rating 8.2

Excellent location on the first line, shared balcony overlooking the sea. Rating 7.2

Nippon Villa Beach Resort Inexpensive hotel with a swimming pool right next to the sea. Rating 7.1

All hotels

Monthly rental housing

If you want to stay for a long time, then in Hikkaduwa you can easily rent a house on a monthly basis. There are many accommodation options in the city that are happy to rent out rooms or an entire house to tourists. Prices from $300 per month. You can find a house for rent immediately on the spot or book in advance. Use Airbnb - www.airbnb.ru/c/5ef305 (use this link for a 2,000 ruble discount)

Renting such a house will cost you $350 per month

How to get to Hikkaduwa

• Hikkaduwa is located 115 km from Colombo in the southwest of the island of Sri Lanka. To get from the airport on your own, you will have to take a bus to Colombo and then change to a bus to Hikku. You can also get there by train. More details about all the options in the article:.
• Order a transfer from the airport you can follow this link >

This article will tell you about what Hikkaduwa Beach, a popular resort in Sri Lanka in the south of the island, is like.

Review about Hikkaduwa beach with photo

1) Hikkaduwa beach is good, wide and long - about 3 kilometers. Covered throughout with pleasant yellowish sand. On the first day, we wandered along the shore for an hour and a half, met only a couple of merchants, complete solitude. Even in the Maldives, the beach of our resort island was more crowded than in the south of Sri Lanka! True, the beach is not equally clean along its entire length. If at hotels everything is usually orderly and noble, then in front of some guest houses we noticed some kind of construction debris and other impurities. Not globally, but still.

2) Well, the Indian Ocean, of course, is incredible - powerful, noisy, a completely different impression compared to the Atlantic. The only problem with swimming in it is that the waves are huge. The only place where we saw people in the water was the bay behind the Hikka Tranz hotel. And so, red flags are raised along the entire beach prohibiting entry into the water. If you are traveling to the southern coast of SHL in the summer, keep this fact in mind.

3) This is the very bay that Christina is looking at.

4) But in general, the weather was gorgeous, and you can’t say it’s not the season!

5) Walking along endless beaches...

6) We've been waiting for this moment for a whole year and here we are!

Beach rating in Hikkaduwa: 7.5/10. In general, we liked it in Hikkaduwa! In June, the season is super low, resulting in an almost complete absence of tourists, the bulk of whom cluster in a few hotels where package travelers are taken. And despite the fact that we were never able to swim in the raging Indian ocean, we rated the beach in Hikkaduwa very highly. First of all, for its length and desertedness.

Hikkaduwa hotels on the 1st beach line

The situation with hotels on the first line in Hikkaduwa is as follows - there are not many of them, but they exist. And in principle, for every taste and budget, from inexpensive guest houses to luxurious “fives”.

In June, many guest houses were a little less than completely empty, and it’s hard to say that there was any activity near the hotels. In fact, you could choose accommodation upon arrival; there were plenty of accommodation options to suit any budget, but in the high season, in our opinion, it is better to think about accommodation in advance.

Well, we also made the following observation: if you can sometimes negotiate with guest houses on the spot a little cheaper than they offer online, then with decent hotels the situation is the opposite - when booking through Booking it almost always turned out cheaper than at the reception, and significantly cheaper . 🙂

In Hikkaduwa, Booking offers more than 500 accommodation options, of which just over 40 are located on the first line of the Hikkaduwa beach. You can view the entire list of hotels on the first line at this link.

We can also recommend the hotel where we stayed ourselves - this is a pretty good 4-star Citrus Hikkaduwa, a review of which you can find at.

We know that many people are specifically looking for a hotel in Hikkaduwa with a good beach and turtles. There is only one such hotel - this is Hikka Tranz (formerly Chaaya Tranz). It is really well located, there is a small cove nearby, where even in the season with big waves it is quite calm and you can swim.

Hikkaduwa beach in the photo

You can find more photos of Hikkaduwa beach in our album.

Turtles in Hikkaduwa

On the second day of our stay in Hikka, we decided to walk to the Hikka Tranz hotel, where large turtles swim to feed in the mornings.

8) Kristina and Sobakevich stomp to feed.

9) And here is the hotel itself in the photo, it will be difficult to make a mistake.

How to breed in Hikkaduwa

We knew in advance that the turtles have a local pimp who takes a bribe for the algae that these reptiles feed on. Having thought about it, we decided to pick up some algae ourselves along the way; there was no point in paying.
Approaching Chayi beach, we met the same native responsible for monetizing turtle eating habits. He immediately indicated that these turtles are his and he has been feeding them for 15 years, and our algae is complete shit, which we can feed each other, but not his shelled friends. For his own magic ones, he asked for 500 rupees. In addition, he promised to bring the turtle to the shore, because... she was hanging on the waves quite far away, and we would hardly have been able to do it on our own. Many people write on the Internet that you have to bargain hard with the Sri Lankans, because... They like to greatly inflate the prices for their services and in real life you can almost halve the price. That's what we decided to do. They immediately said - we will give 200 and no more. He started to get indignant, but we didn’t listen to him, we just went into the water. He's behind us.

10) To the right of Christina is the same turtle master.

Having lit this way and that with the turtle, they returned to the shore to settle accounts. He took 200 rupees out of his pocket - the dark-skinned ruler of the turtles spreads his arms to the sides, saying - “What am I, a sucker or something, drive five hundred, snowball!” I told him: “Its Good Price for You, Maine!” There is no one else on the beach except us who would be happy about this income, but no, he insists on his own. We are, of course, talking about ridiculous amounts of money, but there is no particular point in overpaying for something that is essentially free. They offered to pay 250 rupees today and 250 tomorrow when we come again to feed the turtles. Not at all. He began to appeal to our conscience, because this is his only source of income and if I don’t pay him now, he will have nothing to feed his family for dinner. Then he began to threaten that he would call his local bros and we would be in trouble. I started to get tired of this and as soon as it came to threats from him, I simply gave up and moved towards my hotel. He followed along and, having finished with threats of physical violence, moved on to the next round of pressure - he began to scare him with the police.

To be honest, I was aware of the approximate line of behavior of Sri Lankan hucksters in such cases and clearly understood that they had no real leverage over tourists. Therefore, I just slowly walked towards the hotel and watched how the initially threatening style of his rhetoric ultimately came down to the fact that he, with a face full of disdain, all in foam (he was literally foaming at the mouth!), agreed to the proposals us the money and set off, taking half the amount, cursing us at the top of our lungs, and went home.
This is not a very pleasant story. I can’t say that I behaved in the best possible way, but the guy showed himself to be quite stubborn, refusing us the slightest bargain.

11) The Sri Lankan asks for money for this very seaweed.

Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka: map, photo, weather, how to get there

The city of Hikkaduwa is located on the west coast, 128 km from Colombo International Airport (CMB). Belongs to the administrative district of Galle in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The territory of the city of Hikkaduwa is located on the ocean coast, on a peninsula formed by the bend of the river flowing into the lake of the same name (Hikkaduwa Lake).

For lovers of a quiet and uncrowded holiday, it is worth noting that the number of permanent residents in Hikkaduwa is several times less than the number of visiting tourists. It is here that package tourism from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus is widely developed, with all the ensuing consequences of a popular resort, such as the presence of beach vendors and a certain amount of garbage on the beach.

Map of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka

• to the north - Telwatta, Kahawa, Madampagama, Ambalangoda, Balapitiya;
• to the south - Tiranagama, Kumarakanda, Dodanduwa, Rajgama, Bussa, Gintota, Velawatta, Galle.

The resort of Hikkaduwa is a comfortable place to relax, with a relatively developed infrastructure, located two hours drive from the largest city of Sri Lanka, Colombo. Two national highways pass through the village: A2 and E01, which provides the opportunity to quickly get to any point on the island.

How to get to Hikkaduwa from Colombo airport

Getting from Sri Lanka International Airport, located in Negombo, to Hikkaduwa on the southern coast of the island is not at all difficult. To do this, you can use the official taxi service; the Colombo Airport prepaid taxi counter with fixed prices is located at the exit from the arrivals hall.

The taxi counter is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and on holidays. The cost of an official taxi from Sri Lanka Airport to Hikkaduwa in a car with AC is about 8,500 rupees. There is no need to book an airport taxi transfer in advance; the journey will take about 1.5-2 hours if you drive along the highway.

You can also use public transport services, for example, bus number 187, in order to first get to Colombo, and then transfer to a local bus or train to Hikkaduwa. Bus number 187 between the airport and Colombo railway station. Bus No. 187, depending on the type, arrives at the Central Bus Station or Pettah Bus Station. Colombo Fort Station and Pettah Bus Station are located within a 10-minute walk from each other.

Travel time from Colombo by train is about 2 hours, by bus - about 4 hours, as there are usually traffic jams at the exit from Colombo. And also because commuter buses towards Matara go along the coast along Galle Street, and not along the highway, which significantly increases travel time.

Buses connecting Matara and Colombo run 24 hours a day, with an interval of about 20 minutes during the day and about 1 hour at night. The total cost of a trip by public transport to Hikkaduwa will be about 200-400 rupees.

Hikkaduwa beaches: Narigama and Hikkaduwa

Hikkaduwa is remarkable for its lake of the same name, surrounded by magnificent tropical nature and the wonderful Narigama Beach. The majority of visiting tourists rarely visit the city to explore ancient cultural monuments and local attractions, preferring beach and sports activities to these destinations. There are two beaches in the city - Hikkaduwa beach(Hikkaduwa Beach) and Narigama(Narigama beach).

Hikkaduwa Beach is a narrow strip of sandy beach, densely built up with hotels, bars and shops. The bottom of the beach in most of the territory is rocky, which is why the waves rolling onto the shore contain almost no sand and have a crystal-transparent blue color. The area near the Hikka Trans hotel is used for swimming; there are almost no waves there.

Hikkaduwa Narigama Beach is a wide sandy beach, the entrance to the water is quite flat, there is no immediate transition to depth. There are waves, since Hikkaduwa is not located in a closed bay, but due to the presence of coral reefs, the waves are not very strong. The beach infrastructure is very developed.

Hikkaduwa Photos

Water sports in Hikkaduwa

A beach holiday gives you the opportunity not only to relax in the warm Indian Ocean under the tropical sun, but also to start practicing various water sports: diving, snorkeling, surfing in all its varieties and many other forms of active recreation on the coast.

There are several surf schools on the beach in Hikkaduwa, providing surfing lessons for children and adults. A lesson with a local instructor costs about 2000 rupees.

There you can easily find several diving centers providing the services of dive instructors. All water sports centers operate during the dry season - from October to April.

Feeding turtles on Hikkaduwa beach

In Hikkaduwa, huge turtles swim to the beach in the lagoon located opposite the Red Lobster restaurant, not far from the Hikka Trans hotel. Moreover, they do this on a daily basis, which attracts many tourists there. You can observe sea turtles in the lagoon from early morning until 3-4 pm.

Tourists have the opportunity not only to photograph huge turtles, but also to carefully feed them, sometimes even pet them. The key word here is "careful" - sea turtles have teeth and use them. The approach to the lagoon, photos with turtles and feeding of the turtles are FREE, even if there are local businessmen who claim otherwise. Enterprising Sri Lankans even manage to make a living by selling turtle food - algae - to white tourists.

Sights of Hikkaduwa

Lake Hikkaduwa
(Hikkaduwa Lake)

The second most popular place in the city after the beach is Lake Hikkaduwa, which attracts many tourists with walks along the calm surface of the water, as well as the opportunity to observe the leisurely Sri Lankan life.

On numerous islands located throughout the lake, locals grow coconut, cinnamon, ginger, bananas, etc.

Nets are installed in the dams on the channels of the lake; river shrimp grow in them. On one of the islands of Lake Hikkaduwa there is a museum that displays exhibits of the art of the local population to tourists. The lake itself is a bird sanctuary.

Coral reef in Hikkaduwa
(Coral reef)

There is a large coral reef along the coast of the city. This place is historically called the “Coral Gardens” because previously, not far from the shore, there were countless corals surrounded by bright tropical fish, starfish, urchins and other oceanic life.

Previously, the Hikkaduwa reef could easily compete with the beauty of the Red Sea with its natural resources. Unfortunately, all this splendor could not survive the notorious tsunami of 2004, and what can now be seen are only remnants of its former splendor, mercilessly exploited by tourist businessmen.

Sinigama Muhudu Viharaya Temple
(Seenigama Muhudu Viharaya)

At the entrance to Hikkaduwa, in the village of Sinigama, there is a temple, the Sinigama Temple (Seenigama Muhudu Viharaya or Seenigama Devol Devalaya), in honor of the deity Devol Deviyo. Sinigama - translated from Sinhala as “sugar village” (“sini” - sugar, “gama” - village).

The temple attracts not only tourists but also local residents; it is believed that Devol Deviyo, or god Deviyo, is the protector of the southwestern province and all fishermen and drivers. Every month, the offering site on Galle Road at the entrance of the temple collects about 50 kg of coins, and a puja, a worship ceremony, is also held at the temple every month.

According to local beliefs, the Shinigama Temple is a place where an unjustly injured person can ask for retribution for their offenders, and they will certainly be punished. Some people use this place to cast curses. In order to ask Devol Deviyo for retribution for the offenders, you need to reach the island on foot and turn to the deity there. It is believed that in this way, the territory in which the act of cursing is performed is outside the Buddhist world, without denigrating it. After the petition, it is necessary to carry out a certain ritual, which consists of grinding chili pepper on a special stone.

Honganji Vihara Tsunami Monument
(Honganji Vihara)

Not far from the Shinigama Temple is the Tsunami Honganji Vihara memorial complex, which was erected after the tsunami in December 2004, when about 35,000 people died in Sri Lanka.

The location of the monument was chosen in connection with the tragedy that occurred a few meters from it on December 26, 2004. At this point, a train was washed away from the railway tracks by a tsunami wave; there were 1,700 passengers in the carriages, including tourists from around the world.

The statue of Buddha, 18.5 meters high, looking into the ocean, was donated to Sri Lanka by Japan. In the neighboring village of Tellwatta there is a Tsunami Museum with a voluminous photographic exhibition. This museum is not recommended for visiting by impressionable people, as the photographs of the museum evoke strong emotions.

Nightlife in Hikkaduwa

Due to the developed package tourism, nightlife, by Sri Lankan standards, is present at the resort. However, when going to Hikkaduwa, lovers of nightlife must remember that you should not expect the scale of Pattaya there. The city has several nightclubs with different reputations: “Mambo”s”, “Blue Moon”, “Funky de Bar”, “The Vibration Music Bar”, open until one in the morning.

We strongly advise young travelers not to fall into a tourist trance and periodically subject the surrounding reality to critical reflection - just as if the scene were an unfamiliar nightclub in their hometown, since conflict situations with the local population in such establishments are not at all uncommon.

Weather in Hikkaduwa

The climate in Hikkaduwa is very humid, but warm: the average annual temperature practically does not change its values ​​throughout the year and fluctuates in the range of +28C - +31C. The water temperature in the ocean also changes slightly throughout the year, within the range of +27C - +29C.

The tourist season in Hikkaduwa lasts from November to April - this is the best time to visit the city; during this period the weather is coolest, the average daily temperature drops to +28C, and the amount of precipitation is significantly reduced.

The rainy season in Hikkaduwa lasts from May to October inclusive, during these months there is a large amount of rainfall, mainly in the form of tropical thunderstorms. May and October are the wettest months, precipitation at this time can fall in the afternoon, in the remaining summer months the amount of precipitation is less, rains begin in the afternoon.

Hikkaduwa Beach extends in the southwest of Sri Lanka. Since it was the first on the island to receive foreign tourists, it has the most developed infrastructure: the beach is dense with all kinds of hotels, nightclubs, restaurants and cafes. It was previously considered a hippie hangout.

Hikkaduwa translates as “the city of corals”, and for good reason, because there is a living coral reef in the water and on the beach, popular among divers. Hikkaduwa Beach stretches for 1.5 kilometers, smoothly turning into Narigama Beach. Here you can find not only beautiful fish that live in the corals, but also crabs and turtles.

Yellow sand or coffee with milk, fine and pleasant to the touch. The coastline is wide - about 100 meters, so even in high season it cannot be said that there is nowhere to stay here.

Weather in Hikkaduwa

The optimal months to visit Hikkaduwa beach are November and April, although experienced people also recommend the period from January to March. From late autumn to early spring, the weather in Hikkaduwa is the most comfortable for relaxation: there is no wind or waves, it is hot during the day and cool in the evening.

The ocean is warm all year round, the water temperature is +26…+29°C. The average annual temperature in Hikkaduwa is +29°C. There is always high humidity here, and from May to September it rains, increasing the effect of the heat. This is not just precipitation, but literally tropical downpours, quite prolonged. Then it is impossible to swim in the ocean: the water becomes cloudy, and the waves do not allow you to enter it.

In the off-season, when there is wind in Sri Lanka, you can swim in the backwaters that are located near the coral reefs. The best swimming area (almost no waves) is next to the Chaaya Tranz hotel. Further, to the south, towards Galle, the waves are large - this place is favored by surfers. Hikkaduwa welcomes surfers all year round, because waves are not a hindrance for them, but in the off-season you can stay in a hotel for very little money.

Infrastructure

In the northern part of the beach there are no sun loungers, and therefore no tourists; most vacationers are local residents. Near beach cafes and bars there are always plenty of sun loungers and umbrellas to hide from the sun.

The beach is located right in the city, so here you will find not only cafes, but also supermarkets, shops where you can buy seafood, fruits and cooking products. Here in the city, not on the central streets, you can find the cheapest cafes.

Entertainment on Hikkaduwa Beach

In Hikkaduwa, it’s easy to browse the shops and local markets and buy something made of silver and precious stones. Somewhere in July-August, the city hosts the five-day music festival Hikkaduwa Beach Festival - a sea of ​​music of various genres, parties until the morning, various thematic events (the exact dates need to be found out separately, the timings are constantly changing). Unlike Unawatuna Beach, where the sun sets behind the mountain, Hikkaduwa offers a picturesque sunset.

A little away from the main beach, divers gather near the Coral Sands and Bansei hotels: not far from the shore, on the ocean floor lie the remains of several sunken ships, and the luxurious reef running along the shore is home to various marine life. Since the reef is not deep, so much so that in some places it even protrudes from the water, it is an excellent place for snorkeling.

All swimming equipment can be bought or rented both on the shore and a couple of meters from it, in city shops.

Turtles on Hikkaduwa beach

The turtle farm is located 2 km north of the main beach of Hikkaduwa. Here you can photograph them, pet them, feed them, and even help the turtles get to the water. However, you can also observe these animals outside the farm: large sea turtles sometimes swim close to the shore even near hotels.

Watching turtles is one of the main reasons to holiday in Hikkaduwa. A small turtle beach, accessible to every tourist, is located just behind the coral reef. Large turtles often visit here. They lay eggs, and then the little turtles go out into the ocean to live a free life. There are several species of turtles here: olive ridley, green, loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback. The weight of adult individuals reaches 45 kilograms, and the length of their shell is 60-70 cm.

Beautiful turtles will give an unforgettable experience not only to children, but also to adults. You want to come back to them again and again. Turtles happily swim to the smell of algae. It is better to feed them at shallow depths with caution to avoid waves. Otherwise, they can injure a person with their heavy shell.

Video “Turtles in Hikkaduwa”

Hotels near Hikkaduwa beach

Near Hikkaduwa beach in Sri Lanka there is a large selection of inexpensive accommodation, mainly rooms in guesthouses and hotels. In addition, you can rent a house near the Hikkaduwa beach: for example, choose a small villa for a few days or for a long vacation. The most popular hotel category in Hikkaduwa is 3 stars. A lot of them are on the first line. Hotels can be buildings of 2-3 floors or individual villas. The latter option will be more expensive. Almost all package tours do not have meals, maximum breakfast. Hotels often do not have swimming pools, and the rooms do not have air conditioning, but Wifi is freely available.

Reviews of Hikkaduwa beach

In reviews of holidays at Hikkaduwa Beach, tourists note strong waves (good for surfing, but interfere with swimming) and the opportunity to find protected reef and therefore calmer areas for swimming (located near the center of the resort). Tourists from the Otzovik website note the clean and beautiful ocean, beautiful turtles, convenient, well-developed beach infrastructure, beautiful views, and the wonderful attitude of the locals, who are called Sri Lankans.

How to get to Hikkaduwa beach

The resort is crossed by the A2 highway connecting Colombo to Velawaya. They pass through the city buses from different cities, including Colombo: No. 02, 32, 26, 32/87, 02/08, 32/49, 21/01, 02/48, 02/04, 35, 61, 31. There is also a railway passing through the city — from Colombo Fort or Maradana you can get by train. Rail transport runs daily at intervals of 1-3 hours. You can get there from Colombo by trains No. 8040, 8050, 8060, 8056, 8086, 8764, 8775, 8058, 8094, 8062, 8775.

Predominant local transport - knock-knock. They can be used to get to Hikkaduwa beach from any corner of the city and nearby settlements.

Taxi not very common in Sri Lanka, there are not many services, for example, “Kaetana-Lanka”, but they provide their services, offering cars, buses or minibuses, as well as transfer from Colombo airport.

Business development in Hikkaduwa scooter and car rental. Getting around Sri Lanka using small vehicles is fast, convenient and cheap. To do this you need to have a driver's license.

Transfer to Hikkaduwa beach

If your package tour does not provide a transfer from the airport, you can order a transfer yourself using the Russian-language KiwiTaxi service:

Search for transfers from Colombo Bandaranaike Airport

Video about Hikkaduwa beach: view from the Hikkaduwa hotel on the 1st line of the beach