View from the top of Coconut Tree Hill in Mirissa

Dinuka Lankaloka

Sarmat Batagov

group of people climbing on stand beside seashore

Daniel Klein

An aerial view of a tropical beach and ocean

a beach with a restaurant on the side of it

View from Coconut Tree Hill, Mirissa, Sri Lanka

Matt Dany

Farhath Firous

woman in black bikini holding white surfboard walking on seashore during daytime

Kevin Olson

man wearing black shorts beside palm tree

I’d been in Sri Lanka once before. More specifically in Mirissa (where this photograph is taken). That time around I hadn’t seen this spot. As I was planning for my return trip, scrolling through Instagram I found an image of this place. And I saw it was location tagged in Mirissa. I wondered and wondered where this spot could be located. I decided to write to the photographer of the image that I had found on Instagram and he was kind enough to share the directions. He told me to go past the main beach, to the…

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Oliver Sjöström

a beach with a palm tree and chairs on it