Kites activities on the Beach of Negombo where are the majority of tourists start and end their trip in Sri Lanka due to the close proximity to Colombo International Airport (8km away), the main airport serving Sri Lanka. And that’s why we were here too Negombo is a city on the west coast of Sri Lanka, north of the capital, Colombo. Near the waterfront, the remains of the 17th-century Dutch Fort now house a prison. Negombo Lagoon, lined with fishermen’s huts, feeds into the Dutch-era Hamilton Canal. The canal leads south to Colombo. Neoclassical St. Mary’s Church, completed in the 1920s, features a ceiling decorated with vivid religious paintings.