Jaffna is the capital of North Province and Jaffna district and the most important city in the Tamil-populated north of the island. Jaffna is located in the north of Sri Lanka about 360 kilometers north of the capital Colombo on the Jaffna peninsula, an area that is only connected by a narrow strip of land with the rest of the island. The city is located on the south coast of the peninsula on the shores of a lagoon, which is separated by several offshore island of the Palkbucht. In Nallur, about three kilometers east of Jaffna’s city center, is the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple, one of Sri Lanka’s most important Hindu temples. Among the numerous other Hindu temples is the Naguleswaram Temple, which is also worth seeing. Historically, the Fort Jaffna, it was founded during the Portuguese colonial period in the early 17th century and 1680 renewed by the Dutch and rebuilt in 1792 again.
Attractions: Jaffna Fort, St. James Church, Jaffna Archaeological Museum, Point Pedro Lighthouse, Nagadeepa Temple (by boat), Keerimalai Naguleswaram Temple, Kantharodai, Keerimalai Hot Springs, Nallur – Kandaswamy Hindu Temple.
We now also offer round trips in the undiscovered north to Jaffna!
