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Take a two-hour private boat safari from Bentota Bridge through mangroves and the Bentota Moya Kata delta. English-speaking guides such as Harinda, Sumal, and Nihal point out crocodiles, water monitors, monkeys, bats, and birds, with coconut water and pineapple sometimes served along the way.

“We’ve took a river safari with guide Harinda today via Bentota Travel Mari and it was ab so lu te ly amazing! Harinda was very experienced guide, providing us with Bentota river and mangrove forest geographical subtleties, information about every animal that we’ve encountered, as well as excelent boat captain, allowing us to take extremely close up view and photo/video shots of every animal that we have encountered. We have probably seen every possible animal there is, during the river safari. And when we’ve reached the end of the safari, before heading back, Harinda made us king coconut coctail and treated us with mouth watering pineapple, that he himself grown…”
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