The Ambassador’s is an extremely spacious five-bedroom villa that has been carefully restored and refurbished by its English owners. Enter through a small roadside gate to see a small tropical garden filled with green palms and frangipani and see a front terrace lined with colonial white pillars. The main sitting room, an entirely separate structure to the main house, is enormous with beautiful high ceilings to ensure a comfortable cool climate on even the most steamy Sri Lankan afternoon, comfortable cushioned sofas and some exquisite antiques, including Jaffna tables, Indonesian sculptures and one giant ebony almairah. Note: there is no longer a swimming pool.

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Accommodation
The Ambassador’s has four double bedrooms and one twin-bedded bedroom. The master bedroom upstairs has an adjoining room for children. Three of the bedrooms are airconditioned.  The bedrooms are tastefully designed with connecting bathrooms with showers.

Facilities
The property stretches back a long way from the road to a central sitting and dining area next to a smart and well-designed kitchen with modern appliances. Fulltime staff consists of a houseboy, room girl and general helper. A chef is expected to join the team soon. Sri Lankan breakfast of eggs, juices, jams and tea and coffee is included but all other meals are for your account.

Excursions
Galle Fort is a magical old walled 300-house town like nowhere else in Sri Lanka. Enter through the new English gate or the old Dutch gate and enter a different country. Renovated Dutch architecture of some of the 600 odd houses crowd the narrow streets in this 90-acre Fort. Largely built by the Dutch during the 18th Century, Galle Fort is another of Sri Lankas World Heritage sites, now in the midst of an exciting architectural and cultural renaissance. The ramparts are used for romantic strolls as well as early morning power walks as well, of course, for boisterous local village cricket games. They also provide an excellent vantage point to capture the atmosphere of an international Test match. Galle Fort has a number of small beaches that are suitable for morning swims whilst the sunbathing and surfing beaches are within reach by tuk-tuk or taxi.