Delft Island

A secret hidden paradise amidst the Indian Ocean with a beautiful landscape and vegetation surrounded by beautiful marine environment. Delft Island, also known as Neduntheevu, is a flat island encircled by shallow water and beautiful beaches in the Palk Strait, the marine region between Indian state Tamilnadu and northern coast of Sri Lanka. Featuring unaffected rustic and remote ecosystem, Delft island shall give you a beautiful sightseeing experience where there are a lot of worth seeing historical monuments. The island is known for its population of wild ponies that were left on the island by Portuguese long ago. For a remote yet comfortable rural experience, Delft island is one of the best tourist destinations in Sri Lanka.

Besides the natural beauty of the sparsely populated island and some ruins of a fortress buildings, there are few attractions for travellers – but they are somewhat strange ones, namely first and foremost Sri Lanka’s only herds of feral horses, descendants of Arabian stallions once breeded here for horse trade with India; secondly an imposing specimen of a Baobab tree, a typical species of subsaharan Africa, which is a rare sight in Sri Lanka. All landmarks of Delft Island – the buildings, the animals and the tree – are legacies of European colonial history.