Kingsley's Pearl (Formerly Sanda Kirana Villa) is a luxury modern villa in Thalpe, just along the coast from Galle. Designed by a leading Australian architect, you enter the property through a large garden area with steps up into the house through impressive double doors, revealing walled gardens and opening up to the magnificent view of the breaking waves of the Indian Ocean. The central feature is a large swimming pool, all furnished with colonial furniture. With on the other side is a covered verandah overlooking the garden at the front of the villa, strewn with coconut trees and sloping down to the beach which often features in “paradise” brochures .