Your room by the ocean.

Beach + Lake · Zen Koggala

A night on Koggala Lake

Zen Koggala is our lake-front jungle villa, 20 minutes from Ocean Bliss by tuk. Same people, a very different view: the lake instead of the sea, a pool on the lawn, a lake deck and its own jetty. The tuk is in your price, and our desk books it for you.

Your lake room

Zen DoubleIn your plan

37–39 m² · Double or King bed · ground or first floor

A quiet room for one or two: a desk by the window, and the door open onto your own balcony.

Nirvana SuiteIn your plan

83 m² · the whole top floor · King bed + open-air bathtub

The only room with a bath out under the sky, and the lake in front of you from the moment you wake up.

Five things to do at Koggala

1. 01The stilt fishermenGo at first light: Zen will tell you where they really are that week.
2. 02Koggala Lake by boatMangrove channels, small islands and birds — the boat leaves from Zen's own jetty.
3. 03Martin Wickramasinghe Folk MuseumThe novelist's own house and a collection of village life, a short hop away.
4. 04Handunugoda tea estateA working estate known for its Virgin White Tea; you taste at the end.
5. 05Galle FortRamparts and old streets: go late afternoon and stay for sunset on the walls.

Beach + Lake · how it works

One stay, two of our hotels

When Ocean Bliss is full on a night of your stay, you do not have to change your dates or look elsewhere. That night is at Zen Koggala, our lake-front jungle villa 20 minutes away, and the same team looks after you at both.

1. The beach: Ocean BlissYour nights by the sea in Weligama, in the rooms that are free.
2. 20 minutes by tukOur desk books the tuk and you ride with your bags. Out of your room by 12 noon, into the next from 2 PM.
3. The lake: Zen KoggalaThe night Ocean is full (up to three nights), at our lake-front jungle villa: a lake-view room, the pool by the lake, kayaks off the deck.
4. Back to the beachIf your stay goes on at Ocean Bliss, the tuk back is in your price too.