Negombo Fish Market

The Negombo Fish Market is interesting because it takes place right on the beach, fresh from fishing boats. Crowds of fishermen are seen untangling their fishing nets, playing with their kids, and stretching out miles of fish to dry in the sun on Negombo's shore

The sight of huge kohulanu mats of dry fish laid out in the sun against the Negombo sea and sky is pretty cool. Bernard, a friendly fisherman we talked to, told us that some of the Muslim fishermen still function on Sundays, but Friday is a holiday for them and not for the Catholic ones, so the market's got an all inclusive dynamic of its own.

He also talked about the drying process - they actually lay out the sardines and hours later come and flip every one of them over to dry the other side.