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guide, which can be organised through guesthouses (including Kanda Landvilka) for
around Rs 2000 per day. From the summit you can check the surf at Arugam Bay on a
clear day.
Sleeping & Eating
For cheap meals there are various stalls around the bus station.
Kanda Landvilka
GUESTHOUSE
(YMCA; 227 6925;
raxawa@yahoo.com
;Araliya Rd;s/d Rs 1000/2000; )
Run by Uva, a hospitable English-speaking licensed tour guide and his family, this excel-
lent guesthouse (in the old YMCA building) has five spacious rooms, and a lounge, and is
the best place to hook up with other travellers. Hiking to Maragala rock and a rubber plant-
ation are offered, the latter involving a night in a hilltop mountain lodge.
There's good food too: rice and curry costs Rs 300.
Victory Inn
HOTEL
without air-con Rs 4500/3500; )
The smartest place in town, though that's not saying much - the Victory's smoked-glass
facade and lobby are looking pretty dated. Rooms here (some with balconies) and most
with wooden trim, are also old-fashioned, though comfortable enough. For a filling meal,
the Rs 350 lunch buffet is a great deal, and the restaurant serves both Western and local
dishes.
Sunshine Guesthouse
HOTEL
)
This hotel was being renovated at the time of research. It offers spartan but clean tiled
rooms with mossie nets.
Pavilion
SRI LANKAN
(61 Pottuvil Rd; meals in canteen/restaurant from Rs 200/300)
