The expert opinion of World Luxury Hotel magazine, which offered this prize accolade to Jungle Beach, mentioned Kuchaveli, off Trincomalee is the best holiday hideaway on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

According to a release from the hotel, Jungle Beach was also rated the best resort hotel on the East Coast last year by the world’s most popular and authoritative online hotel and resort review site tripadvisor.com. Jungle Beach Resort at Kuchaveli, owned and run by Uga Escapes, celebrated its second anniversary recently with CSR project with Kuchaveli Hospital. Kuchaveli, where, in the olden days, a ferry across the lagoon connected Trincomalee with the vast jungles of the Wanni, is a fabled beauty-spot where forest, sea, salt-marsh and lagoon come together to create an explosion of biodiversity on land and in the air and water.