Things to do in Galle

An 18th-century Dutch colonial church inside the fort, its floor paved with old gravestones and memorial slabs.

A UNESCO World Heritage fortified old town of Dutch ramparts, churches and cobbled lanes jutting into the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka's oldest light station, a whitewashed tower standing above the palms at the southern tip of Galle Fort.

A gleaming white Buddhist stupa on Rumassala hill with sweeping views over Unawatuna bay and the Indian Ocean.

A maritime archaeology museum inside a 1671 Dutch warehouse above the fort's Old Gate.

The oldest surviving Dutch building in the fort, now a museum of southern Sri Lankan history and crafts.

A curving, palm-fringed bay with calm reef-protected water, one of the south coast's most popular beaches.