A Sri Lankan coastal city famous for golden beaches, Bentota is situated on the northern coastal tip of the Galle District of the Southern Province. The town is a popular tourist attraction. It is especially famous among the foreign tourists. View of the city from the sea side Galle (?? in Sinhala; காலி in Tamil) (pronounced as one syllable, rhyming with Gaul in English or Ga Le pronounced as two syllables in Sinhala) is a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 116km from Colombo. ...

Bentota hosts a handful of world proclaimed hotels. The city's population is estimated to be between 25,000-50,000. Bentota was heavily damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami which devastated the Sri Lankan coastal belt on the morning of the December 26th. The December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hits Thailand The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) on December 26, 2004. ...