The accommodation has an a la carte Drench - Swim-Up Pool Bar restaurant that serves American meals. Eat & DrinkĬontinental breakfast is offered to guests of the property at the restaurant. Rooms contain private bathrooms with a shower, a tub and dryers. The elegant units come with magnificent views. This helipad operates helicopter joyrides in Bentota near the estuary operated by Skylark Aviation Helicopters.The fashionable rooms at the accommodation have blinds, multi-channel television and satellite television. Galapatha Raja Maha Vihare Buddhist temple, located in Bentota, contains stone inscriptions, stone carvings, pillars, ponds and troughs from the medieval period.Established in 1929 on the grounds of a former rubber plantation Bawa continued to develop the property until his death in 1992. Brief Garden - located 11 km (6.8 mi) inland from Bentota, is the house and garden of renowned Sri Lankan landscape architect, Bevis Bawa, the older brother of architect Geoffrey Bawa.Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery - located 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Bentota, is a community based turtle hatchery and turtle watching project set up by the Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) in association with the Wildlife Department of Sri Lanka.Helicopters fly shuttle services on charter basis.
Access is possible from the Southern Expressway Welipenna exit and only 10 km from the exit.
It is located on the A2 highway, connecting Colombo to Wellawaya, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Beruwala. The British introduced the railway in the early 19th century, mainly to transport the coconut produce from the deep south to the capital, building a permanent bridge (Bentota Palama) to cross the river.īentota is located on the Coastal or Southern Rail Line (connecting Colombo through to Matara), though Bentota Halt is only a small railway station with most trains stopping at Aluthgama, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north of Bentota. Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869), the colonial secretary of Ceylon (1845-1850) in his book, Ceylon, An Account of the Island (1859), stated that the rest house at Bentota, situated within a little park, deeply shaded by lofty Tamarind trees on the point of the beach where the river forms its junction with the sea, is one of the coolest and most agreeable in Ceylon. The British subsequently converted the rest house into a coastal sanatorium. The Dutch subsequently allowed the fort to fall into disrepair, converting one of the large buildings within the fort into a colonial rest house for Dutch Officers travelling between Colombo and Galle. The river marked the southern extremity of Portuguese held territory in Sri Lanka. In the 17th Century the Portuguese built a small fort at the mouth of the Bentota River (Bentara Ganga), which in Sinhala was called Parangi Kotuwa, meaning the fort of the Portuguese. The Galapatha Viharaya is one of a cluster of five ancient temples in the region. It also has a turtle hatchery, located on Induruwa beach.īentota is a historical place described in ancient messenger poems ( sandeśa kāvya).
Bentota is famous for its toddy production, an alcoholic beverage made out of coconut nectar.
Bentota also delivers an ancient art of healing called Ayurveda. Bentota is a tourist attraction, with a local airport ( Bentota River Airport) and a handful of world-class hotels.
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