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A floating deck under the banyan, where the lake does the parenting

Stay · BANYAN CAMP, HAMBEGAMUWA, SRI LANKA

A floating deck under the banyan, where the lake does the parenting

Banyan Camp is reached on a road that does not behave like a road. It narrows, then forgets itself, then surrenders to a track of pale red earth that the rain has been arguing with for a decade. You park where a man tells you to park, which is under a tree, and you walk […]

Design Score9.5Family Score8.7
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Experiences · KOGGALA LAKE, SOUTHERN, SRI LANKA

The man who knows this coast better than anyone will take you somewhere the guidebooks can’t.

The coast of Southern Sri Lanka looks beautiful from a car window. Naveen will make you want to get out of the car.

Design Score10Family Score10
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Beach Lounge · Kurumba Bay, Welligama, The South, Sri Lanka

A kids‘ pool, beanbags in the shade, surfing on the beach, 18 holes of mini golf, four restaurants and an ice cream stand that saved the afternoon.

Kurumba Bay is not the most beautiful place on the south coast. It might be the most useful.

Design Score6.5Family Score9.5

Experiences · Rama Shala, Harumalgoda, Habaraduwa, SRI LANKA

The place we built so that families like ours would have somewhere to land.

Rama Shala is where we live. It is also where we welcome families who want the same thing we wanted when we started travelling with children — a beautiful, unhurried place where the parents can breathe and the children can run.

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