There is a lot of buzz around at the moment about Passekudah\u00a0on Sri Lanka’s East Coast – and it is certainly changing at a pace.<\/p>\n
While it’s a great place if you want a luxury hotel on the beach for a few days – there is a limited amount to do and the area is something of a building site. The BBC have an interesting report on it which you can read here.<\/a><\/p>\n Unfortunately I can’t say I disagree with the reporter: the amount of building is far too high and I cannot see how they will fill all \u00a01700 hotel rooms – at least in the short term. The infrastructure is just not there to get people to and from and the journey is at least<\/em> 6 hours. It is interesting to me that none of Sri Lanka’s major hotel chains has\u00a0built there yet – though they must own land in the vicinity. \u00a0There is also very little to do in the surrounding area – though I enjoyed my visit to Batticoloa lagoon. For a few days doing very little – the bay is magnificent and Uga Bay<\/a> is a great hotel and extremely reasonably priced, but for my money, having spent a fair amount of time on the east coast and Jaffna earlier this year, Trincomalee is a far better bet – in particular the fantastic Jungle Beach<\/a> hotel – one of my absolute favourites in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a lot of buzz around at the moment about Passekudah\u00a0on Sri Lanka’s East Coast – and it is certainly changing at a pace. While it’s a great place…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[924],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sri-lanka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1661,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}