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Sri Lanka and India Day 1: Negombo Fish Market

17 February 2016 • 4.6 km / 2.8 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 7 June 2026
  • Sri Lanka 1

We’re beginning a two-week exploration of Sri Lanka and India today. We arrived yesterday after a day and a half of flying from Seattle to Colombo. This morning we started with a tour of the Negombo Fish Market, which was rich with sights and smells.

A towering, brightly colored Hindu temple gopuram covered in intricate sculptures of deities and figures, viewed from below against a deep blue sky. Two large golden guardian statues flank the dark entrance gateway at the base.
Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A busy open-air fish market under a large weathered metal dome roof, with vendors and shoppers standing among concrete and wooden stalls, plastic chairs, baskets, buckets, and plastic jugs on a wet floor. Women in patterned dresses and skirts gather near the stalls, with the sea visible in the bright background.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A vendor in a maroon cap and turquoise T-shirt stands behind a white-covered table piled with fresh fish and crabs at an open-air fish market, with crowds of shoppers, blue-roofed stalls, a parked auto rickshaw, and a bicycle in the busy background.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A busy open-air fish market with rows of fish laid out on blue and concrete tables, including tuna and small silver fish in the foreground. Vendors and shoppers crowd the stalls under blue tin roofs and umbrellas, with birds circling overhead in a bright sky.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Three whole fresh fish, including a brown-spotted grouper, a bright red coral grouper with blue spots, and a paler orange-spotted fish, laid out on white paper covering a market stall table, with a pile of small shrimp to the right and a blue weighing scale behind.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Fish Market I · Walking through the Negombo Fish Market · Negombo, Sri Lanka · Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A wet concrete floor of an indoor fish market where whole tunas and a cut block of red tuna flesh lie beside weathered insulated boxes, with a white Mazda pickup truck and a green auto-rickshaw parked under a corrugated metal roof and a few men standing in the background. A picture of the Virgin Mary is stuck to the metal beam overhead.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A busy covered fish market where a vendor in a red shirt stands beside a long white table covered with rows of fresh silver fish and a pile of reddish prawns or shrimp in the foreground. Across from him a man in a checked shirt browses, while other vendors and shoppers move among the stalls under an arched metal roof.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Sri Lanka
Fish Market II · Walking through the Negombo Fish Market · Negombo Fish Marketx, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A group of people sit and stand along a long blue painted concrete ledge under a curved corrugated metal roof at an open-sided market hall, with two mopeds and two bicycles parked against the ledge on the concrete floor in front of them.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A busy beach scene at Negombo Fish Market in Sri Lanka, where small fish are spread out to dry on the sand in large patches and groups of fishermen work around colorful wooden boats near the water’s edge. Crows circle in a bright blue sky streaked with thin clouds above the calm sea.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Countless small silvery fish spread out to dry on woven coir mats laid over sandy ground, with patches of the brown matting and tan sand showing through the scattered fish.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A group of fishermen in colorful shirts and sun hats gather around a green and yellow fishing boat on a sandy beach beside the sea, with floats, nets, and woven baskets piled on the sand and a bird flying in the cloudy blue sky.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A group of fishermen gather around colorful wooden fishing boats on a sandy beach, with one bright orange and green boat marked 'OFRP-A-4189 NBO' in the foreground. Beyond the calm sea a sailing boat is visible, with birds in the hazy blue sky and a white egret standing at the water’s edge.
Negombo Fish Market, Negombo, Sri Lanka
around Negombo, Sri Lanka · 4.6 km / 2.8 mi
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