The South Travel Guide

As well as containing many excellent beach resorts such as Tangalle and Hambantota, the sourthern region of Sri Lanka is alive with culture and releigous activity.  Sites to visit include Werehena temple near Matara with a five storey building enclosing a buddha staue filled with comic strips of the Buddh's life and Kataragama where the Lord Kataragam, an incarnation of the Hinddu wargod Skanda, is worshipped.