Puttalam Taxi Service

Getting to and from Puttalam

The coast road running north out of Negombo stays flat and mostly straight through Chilaw before opening out along the edge of Puttalam's own lagoon — an ordinary two-lane road rather than an expressway, so the distance on a map does not shrink the way it would further south. The lagoon pushes the road inland in places, and salt pans line long stretches of the final approach. This is also where the roads split: one way out to the peninsula, the other inland toward the dry-zone parks and the old cities.

Arranging a pickup

The town centres on the harbour and the older lagoon-side streets rather than one high street, so a hotel or landmark name carries more than a street address would. Most journeys through here are a stop on the way somewhere else rather than an end in themselves, and drivers treat it that way by default.