Mirissa

 

The ever cheery, playful dolphins will put on a show while some of the oldest and the largest marine creatures, the humpback and the blue whales, will nonchalantly glide past you, when you embark on a whale/dolphin watching excursion off the Southern coast of Sri Lanka. The perfect locations for whale watching would be Mirissa.

Mirissa and its magnificent sandy beach cute much transform your imaginings and visions of a tropical paradise into an everyday reality. Mirissa Located close to the Southern tip of the Island of Sri Lanka and only about 200 km from the Equator, this beach is the perfect place to sit back, relax and forget about all the hustle and bustle of your other life that’s a million miles away. This small tropical beach boasts some of Sri Lanka’s most excellent and most.

Since of late it has become the best place in the world to observe the mighty Blue Whale, as it has come to be that unlike other places where they roam, most of the Blue Whales in Sri Lanka do not migrate. They can be found residing among other whales and all kinds of dolphins.

With the whale watching season (November to April / May to October) in Mirissa being in full swing and many local and foreign tourists gathering to the Mirissa harbor, The Sri Lanka Coast Guards had increased their vigilance in monitoring the implementation of whale watch, and manage policy. To ensure that the system is adhered to by boat operators and tourists occupied in whale watching.