Snorkeling at Pigeon Island Trincomalee

Snorkeling at Pigeon Island Trincomalee

This Three-hour adventure gives you an amazing opportunity to get a clear view of the sea life that inhabit the shallow waters just off Nilaveli. Feast your eyes on colourful corals. Enjoy the lively darting shoals of silvery fish. See if you can catch sight of those beautiful clownfish amongst the anemones. There's a whole world down below the shiny blue surface of the sea. Learn the ocean as you have never before.

Itinerary

Pigeon Island is one of the most popular marine national parks in Sri Lanka. It is brimming with some of the country’s most breathtaking coral reefs and is also home to a stunning array of exotic marine species.

It is called Pigeon Island due to the thousands of Rock Pigeons that use it as their breeding ground.

It is located just a kilometre off the coast of the famous Nilaveli beach in Trincomalee on the eastern coast of the island.

More recently though, the island has become famed for snorkelling and diving as it is a hotbed of hundreds of species of coral and around 200 species of dazzling fish.

The spectacular Blacktip Reef Shark and several kinds of turtles including the Hawksbill Turtle and Green Turtle often visit this island.