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Village in Central Province, Sri Lanka

Barigama

Barigama is a village in Sri Lanka.

The place

Barigama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Barigama

Airports
Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 79 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 96 km · Jaffna (JAF), 279 km
  • Colombo → Barigama
    1918 km · quickest by road, 32h 21m · Rs19,050–25,400
  • Jaffna → Barigama
    1636 km · quickest by road, 30h 54m · Rs18,400–24,550
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Barigama
    1677 km · quickest by road, 34h 9m · ₹13,200–16,500
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barigama

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barigama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe train line goes further to Badulla, passing on its way Nuwara Eliya (Nanu Oya station from where one needs to take a short bus or tuk-tuk ride to Nuwara Eliya proper), Haputale and Ella.
  • Get inIf you are in Negombo you will have to take some bus, taxi or tuk-tuk to some of the cities where the Main Line train goes to Kandy: Ragama, Gampaha or Veyangoda, on the trip you will see the Bible Rock, which resembles the more famous Sigiriya citadel.
  • Get inWhen you arrive, watch out for the tuk-tuk mafia at the railway station.
  • Get inIt is better catch a tuk-tuk some distance from the station, or even better use Uber, PickMe or the like (again, some distance from the railway station tuk-tuk stand, as otherwise the tuk-tuk mafia there will threaten and chase your driver away).
  • Get inWalk or take a tuktuk to the bus terminal, where the friendly locals will direct you to the bus to Kandy, 3½ hr, Rs 150 (as of Jan 2013).

From Wikivoyage: Kandy, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EllaLK

    7 ways of moving, 30 sources

    72 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    443 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    480 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    484 km

If you know how people move in Barigama – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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