Fish Market Negombo

... to give me lots of tips and advice. The second day i went into Negombo with Sujje, my driver, and he took me to a fish market. it reeked! seriously! i was trying so hard not to heave that my eyes watered and i found myself hanging my head out of the ...

... combo of working fishing village and resort town. The beach is littered with garbage, especially as you go closer to the port and fish market, and the closer you get, it smells worse and worse—not just because of the fish drying all over the ...

... Ocean View. Basic but at least it had hot water and a balcony. We stayed here for two days exploring the local town, fort and fish market. We met a really cool guy at the market called Ivan who showed us round a little and advised us to buy the fresh ...

... cricket ground that had about 10 games being played - they definitely love their cricket!    The beach nearby is used as a fish market & did it stink...  I didn't stay for long but made my way to the main part of town and stocked ...

... to walk into town as we needed to get a bank. The town wasn't really up to much. We had a look around the very smelly fish Market and walked around the busy, chaotic streets. The heat got a bit too much (and it was 94% humidity!!!!) so we headed back to ...

... the lagoon, seeing the damage from the tsunami last year, the fort (built by the Dutch and now housing over 4000 prisoners) and the fish market – phew stinky! Then the heat gets to us and we head back to the guest house. We eat in a tiny little ...

... because a bird shat on me.!    I cleaned myself up and made my way down to the dutch fort and the fish market again.   There were thousands of fish, barramundi, mackerel, shark all drying on the beach.   I found a cool ...

... Negombo does have a beach- but it's not an incredible beach. One of the (supposedly) great things you can do in Negombo is visit the fish market (they have several in town). The tuktuk drivers make a big deal about these markets but I’ve been to ...

... he had it changed. We are 15 paces from the indian ocean & have had a leisurely time here - swimming (it's so warm), the fish market (don't ask about the flies), Liz's crab supper, a trip on the 'pirogue' wiith the local fisherman yielding us a prawn ...

... , but it bucketed it down with rain, so couldn't go to the places I'd planned. One day I went into Negombo town itself. The fish market was amazing. Really massive and absolutely heaving with people all shouting at each other. And there was every type ...