One day with Milanin Negombo.

1. Coffee in townWe meet in the heart of Negombo for a warm coffee or tea and a small snack.
2. Lellama fish marketThe heart of the city. Boats bring the night’s catch ashore and it is sold in lively negotiations. We buy the fish for our lunch.
3. The dried fish marketOn the beach, rows of fish are cut, salted and dried in the sun and the sea breeze. Sri Lanka is famous for dried fish too, and it tastes like nothing else.
4. The vegetable marketA local pola, the weekly village fair. We buy vegetables, fruit and spices for lunch.
5. Breakfast like a localBreakfast in the city, in a local place, often the home of my friends. I prefer local places to tourist spots.
6. Negombo’s historySome of the historic places of Little Rome, from the Portuguese and Dutch colonial times.
7. Cook with my familyBack home, you cook with my mother and grandmother using the fish and vegetables we bought, then we all sit down for lunch together.
8. Our family stallsHandmade crafts, wooden masks, Ceylon tea, spices and other work by local artisans.
9. A little restTime to relax after lunch.
10. Boat safari with my fatherThrough the mangroves of the lagoon and the old Hamilton Canal, to Monkey Island, with a swim and a fresh coconut, then the sunset.
11. Dinner by the beachWe finish with fresh fish by the sea: crab curry, grilled prawns, squid or kottu roti.

The cooking class and the boat safari can also be booked on their own.