TRINCOMALEE

Trincomlee is located in eastern part of Sri Lanka; trincomlee city is located on the east coast of the island overlooking the trincomlee harbor. trincomalee is one of the oldest cities in asia, it has served as a major maritime seaport in inter national trading history of the sri lanka.15th century the British admiral had described trincomalee as the finest harbor in the world, Attacked by the Japanese as part of the Indian ocean raid during world war 2 in 1942 to that area, oldest Hindu temple “ktirukonesvaram kovil”is situated in trincomlee.Koneswaram Temple.

Nilaveli

Nilaveli is located 12 kilometers from trincomlee. The natural beach is one of finest in the world; this beach has ample water sport facilities including fishing and sea angling and sun bathing and diving, the pigeon island is the important places of tourist interest in the vicinity.Hot water wells are located 6 km from nilavali and trincomlee city that place has Buddhist temple and historical legend of the Sinhalese kingdom

Swami Rock and koneswarm temple

In 5 th century bc Trincomlle was named gokanna, it has founded by king panduwasdewa, According to the history king Dutugamunu had built many pagodas and monasteries at gokunna.
King Mahasena has developed to this area building many lakes in 3rd century AD the legend says when the king rawana tried to remove the temple of koneswaram the god Siva made drop his sword. The famous swami rocks on which stand the celebrated koneswaram temple and dedicated for ancient hind shrine. Some says that place has spiritual combination with goddess porawathi