Trincomalee District and major resort port city of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Situated 237 kilometers northeast of Colombo, the city is built on a peninsula of the same name, which divides its inner and outer harboursTrincomale. The city is home to the famous Koneswaram temple from where it developed and earned its historic Tamil name Thirukonamalai. The town is home to other historical monuments such as the Bhadrakali Amman Temple, Trincomalee.
The recorded history of Trincomalee spans more than two and a half thousand years, One of the oldest cities in Asia, it has served as a major maritime seaport in the international trading history of the island with South East Asia. It has been described as the “finest harbor in the world” and by the British, “the most valuable colonial possession on the globe, as giving to our Indian Empire a security which it had not enjoyed from elsewhere”. Popular tourist destinations include its beaches at Uppuveli, Salli, and Nilaveli, used for temple visits, surfing, scuba diving, fishing and whale watching, and the Kanniya Hot Springs.
