Kumu Beach
Galle

Kumu Beach is hidden behind the palm-fringed shoreline of Balapitiya. Its 10 bedrooms, all looking out over the pool and garden with amazing views across the Indian Ocean. With an open air living and dining areas, Kumu Beach provides the best of luxury accommodation where you can enjoy personalised, high-end service. You can go for long strolls on the beach, mere footsteps away, or explore Ambalangoda, a 15-minute drive, famed for southern arts and culture.

The contemporary-styled 10 bedrooms at Kumu Beach are furnished with custom-designed furnishings and stylish décor, showcasing the best of luxury accommodation. There are four bedrooms on the ground floor with access to garden terraces while the other suits on the upper floor have balconies with expansive sea views. They are known for their fine alfresco dining with a menu that champions fresh fish and seafood. The experienced professionals at Z Spa offers a number of specially curated treatments that will help you feel relaxed and rejuvenated.

Within a 15-minute drive of Balapitiya is Ambalangoda, with its two in-town mask museums, is only a 1t-minute drive from Balapitiya. Here you can witness the unique balsa wood masks used in spirit cleansing ceremonies, local festivals and folk dances rarely performed today. Bentota’s lagoon water sports are just a half-an-hour away, as well as Lunuganga and Brief, the striking former homes and estates of legendary brothers Geoffrey and Bevis Bawa. You can visit Hikkaduwa for surfing, or to Galle Fort if you want to go shopping or soak yourself in the colonial history.

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran