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Casuarina Beach, Jaffna is one of the most popular attractions in Jaffna District.. This beach is located near to the Jaffna Town in the Northern Province. Casuarina beach got it name from the Casurina trees (Australian pine tree) surrounding it. These trees should have been planted by the Portuguese Rulers during their rule in Sri Lanka. They had bought Baobab Tree, Potato and chilies to Sri Lanka during their rule. Fascinating white sand beach can be found in a village called as Karainagar close to Jaffna Town. The distance from any Jaffna Hotel is around 20 kilometers to this beach. Casuarina beach is connected through a well maintained road called Karainagar Road. It will take around 45 minutes travelling from the Jaffna town to reach this beach. You can use your private vehicle, if you want to stay there till late hours. Otherwise you have to use the public or private busses as their ticket fare is very low. Also there is lot of Tuk Tuk's too available in the day time to and from this beach. Most of these Tuk Tuk Three Wheels don't have tariff meter. So bargain the price before you board in to the Tuk Tuk. Anyhow don't miss the opportunity to enjoy one day at this fabulous beach, if you visit Jaffna. Get enough battery power for your Smartphone and enough space in it for to catch memorable images and video clips while on this beach. While you are in Jaffna check with your Hotel on renting out a Scooter on daily basis for your personal use in Jaffna. During these months lot of Tamil families living in foreign land had came here and enjoyed the stay at this Casuarina Beach.
This place can be reached with your bicycle. Bicycles are available for rent in the Jaffna town on daily rental basis. Also you can take your bicycle with you from Colombo when you are travelling in a luxury bus. The cost will be a small one for the transport while you can start your journey once you get out of the bus. no need to hire taxi or TUK TUK. Just put the internet road map and follow the direction to your newly booked hotel there to start your day out.
In this year 2023, lots of foreigners are visiting Jaffna district for holidays. They and the Tours operating companies see this beach as a calm and peaceful place to enjoy their holidays. Actually the hotel room rents and cost of living is very low here when comparing it to other cities in Sri Lanka. No special travel Insurance is required for this area.
Foreign tourist riding through Sri Lanka on a bicycle or motorcycle can visit this beach. Once you reach the Jaffna town, go around as much as you can ride. Ride on the Manipay road and on the second left junction starts the Karainagar Road. Keep riding on this road passing through paddy fields, and villages. You will have to pass the well laid road that is penetrating through the sea. At the end of Karainagar road you will be in Karainagr and in some distance you can find this fantastic Casuarina beach. Local people use to come here in the morning and in the evening and you will see few people in the beach. In the meantime visiting tourists can rent out Scooter and Bicycles on daily rental basis from the local Hostels in Jaffna. It is necessary to pay a small refundable deposit other than the rent.
Earlier this place was called as New Amsterdam by the Dutch people when they were ruling Ceylon. Also they built a small fort that was named as Hammanhiel, off the Southwest corner of the island. Also you can find lot of Hindu temples in this village. This Beach in Karainagar is also called as Casoorina, Cashoorina along with few other variants. This is one of the best known beach in the Jaffna distract and lot of people used to visit here on Sundays and holidays. No big waves strike at the shore and it allows tourists to walk far deep in to the sea or to swim around without any fear. There are no Sharks, stray dogs, pigs, donkeys and horses in this beach. And  beggars are very rare to see here.
There is lots of Casuarina trees around the beach which offer you shade, if you want to escape from the burning sun while at the beach.
As it is located in a remote area you have to bring all the necessary things that you may need for you and your children while you are spending time there at this place. This area is in the tropical region although it gets rain during the December season. So you can have fun over there all the other months without the worry of the local climate. Watch out the month of April provides very hot sun in this area. In April go to this beach early morning or in the evening to avoid damaging your skin due to the hot sun.
You can communicate with the visitors in Tamil language in this area. If you don't know Tamil, don't worry you can speak in English as their second language. People are very friendly over here. If you don't know swimming you can ask the local people to assist you by providing two fully dried coconut with husks knotted with short rope. You can slip the coconuts through your armpit and can float in the sea as it will keep you floating in the sea. This is a popular method for starters at this calm sea to learn swimming
Find boat rides here provided by local people at around the cost of Rs 1,000/-
After the sea bath in this sea, you will feel very hungry and you can see that your skin turned in to dark color due to the sun light and the salty water.
American, European, Australian tourists used to visit this beach annually.
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