FORMERLY CALLED HOTEL CLUB PARADISE,

this resort is exclusively for those who seek Ayurvedic healing. The charges are all-inclusive of board, therapy, meditation and yoga sessions. The minimum stay is one week. Set between the Bentota River and a long quiet beach, this place - simple, small and graceful - is like an ashram where you come to gain good health and peace of mind. You feel the promise even as you cross the Bentota River by boat and step through the arch of Bamboo.

No alcohol, no usual beach resort bustle, no telephone or TV in the room, smoking discouraged and no red meat served! " More years to your life and more life to your years" is the motto.

The palm fringed unspoilt skyline, red-brick individual cottages connected by zigzag pathways, clumps of mangroves and flowering plants, all join hands to create an atmosphere of beauty, peace and harmony. Some of the rooms have air-conditioning, while all are airy and spacious with terraces facing either the sea or the river. The simple, comfortable furniture, hand woven curtains and bedspreads in shades of cool green, blue and white soothe the eye. There is style in the tiled bedside wall tables, the terracotta tiled red floor that is so pleasing to the feet and the open roof attached shower that welcomes light.

The open-sided restaurant serves meals to suit the prescribed diet of each individual - generally lots of vegetables and white fish. Adjacent is the lounge, by the sparkling clean swimming pool, where contented guests gather in between their treatment to rest in wicker chairs and sip Ayurvedic teas and herbal wine.

The clean and efficient Ayurveda clinic is attended by four qualified doctors, (one of whom specializes in Acupuncture as well) and a team of trained therapists. Your daily healing schedule will usually begin before breakfast with basic Yoga exercises and thrice a week in the afternoon you can join meditation sessions guided by a Buddhist Monk.

Come for at least a week, enjoy the sunrises and sun sets, absorb the tranquility, listen to your heart and discover the natural healing science ' AYURVEDA - THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE.