ENVIRONMENT

Batticaloa Beach Resort, surrounded by seawater, is a paradise of understated amazement.

Once you are at our resort you will start appreciating the eco-system that we have built during the last 10 years. There are more than 100 different species of flora and many varieties of birds.

Not touting ourselves as an “Eco-resort,” the Batticaloa Beach Resort nevertheless “walks the walk” when it comes to sustainable tourism. Virtually all of the vegetables and fish you order for breakfast, lunch, or dinner are locally sourced or better, grown right on the premises free of agrochemicals of any sort.

A “living machine” in which water is filtered naturally and re-introduced to the groundwater. In fact, groundwater recharge and protection are so important here you won’t run into an inch of paving. This keeps the soil and water healthy and it also keeps Batticaloa Beach Resort cool!

Most of the garden waste is turned into charcoal by pyrolysis process (burnet in a Kon-Tiki a type of kiln). The charcoal is mixed with the biogas slurry to produce biochar. We also produce compost from the leaves we collect daily.