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<ul><li>Breakfast at the hotel.<br></li><li>Visit Madu Ganga wetland for a boat safari and bird watching located about 17 Km from Bentota.</li><li>En-route visit Lunuganga Estate, the country house of Geoffrey Bawa and Kosgoda Turtle conservation project.</li><li>Madu Ganga River flows into Madu Lake before unleashed into the sea at Balapitiya. Madu Lake is an estuary connected with adjoining Randombe Lake by two narrow channels, forming a coastal wetland ecosystem of 915 ha, of which 770 ha of open water and 145 ha of islands.  Madu Ganga wetland consists of 303 species of plants including 19 endemics and 248 species of the vertebrate fauna of which 20 species are endemic</li><li>The country house of Lunuganga estate belonged to renounced architecture, late Geoffrey Bawa now maintain by the Geoffrey Bawa trust is a fascinating display of Bawa’s architectural vision. The estate was a cinnamon garden at the Dutch period and rubber plantation in the British period. Geoffrey Bawa brought this 15 acres land in 1949 and developed as a tropical version of the European renaissance garden. Bawa was cremated and ashes were buried there.<br></li><li>Dinner and overnight stay at Avani Bentota Resort.</li></ul>