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Sakkotai Cape – northernmost location in tear drop isle – By Arundathie Abeysinghe Sri Lanka, a tear-drop-shaped resplendent isle located at the southern tip of India is considered as “heaven on the Earth” by majority of foreign tourists. With 1,340 kilometers of magnificent coastline and an enviable choice of palm-fringed golden beaches with deep turquoise waters that stretch out into the deep azure of the Indian Ocean. Situated in the southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, visitors are endowed with a unique and exotic experience in the spectacular island. Sri Lanka’s beaches come in all styles and suit visitors of diverse tastes; popular surfers’ paradise of *Arugambay, *Trincomalee and *Mirissa that are popular vantage points for blue-whale watching, *Hikkaduwa, a popular location for boogie-boarding, snorkelling and scuba diving, *Batticaloa, with flat year-round warm-water including shallow-lagoons, *Pasikudah, ...