Beginners Surfing & Yoga Holiday – Arugam Bay

Day 1: Arugam Bay Beach – Basic Sunset Yoga Class

Your check in time is at 12 p.m. at the hotel. Once you’ve checked in, you will have a basic sunset yoga class in the evening (for almost one and a half hours) and it will be start at around 5:30 p.m. The class will end at around 7 p.m. and you will be back at the hotel at around 7:30 p.m.

 

Day 2: Arugam Bay Beach – Peanut Farm – Yoga – 2 Basic Surf Lessons

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have buffet for lunch. In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the afternoon. On this day, two surf lessons are included. You can go watch the evening sunset locations on the beach and do yoga with a yoga teacher till the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 3: Whiskey Point / Peanut farm – Yoga – 2 Basic Surf Lessons – Kudumbigala Monastery – Lahugala National Park Elephant Safari

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have buffet for lunch. In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. You will start climbing to visit Kudumbigala Monastery and Lahugala National Park Elephant Safari at around 3 p.m. You can watch the evening sunset from the top of the rock. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 4: Elephant Rock / Baby Point – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons – Cookery Class

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, there will be a Sri Lankan cookery class at around 11 a.m. and it will be complimentary lunch for you (Sri Lankan style buffet lunch). In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 5: Arugam Bay Baby Point – Peanut Farm – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have your buffet lunch. After lunch, you will move to Peanut Farm for your next surf lesson or professional surf guiding in the tour and surfing with at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food at a campfire at the Peanut Farm beach and for the rest of the night, you can enjoy and return to the hotel and rest in the room.

 

Day 6: Crocodile Rock / Whiskey Point – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons – Cookery Class – Okanda Ancient Hindu Temple

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have 2 surfing lessons (one in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, there will be a Sri Lankan cookery class at around 12 p.m. and it will be complimentary lunch for you (Sri Lankan style buffet lunch). In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. In the evening at around 4 p.m., you will be heading to visit Ancient Okanda Hindu temple and the excursion will take 3 hours. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 7: Arugam Bay Beach – Elephant Rock / Peanut Farm – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have buffet for lunch. In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the afternoon. On this day, two surf lessons are included. You can go watch the evening sunset locations on the beach and do yoga with a yoga teacher till the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 8: Arugam Bay Beach – Baby Point – 2 Surf Lessons – Sunset Yoga

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have 2 surfing lessons (one in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, in the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. You will be heading to visit your sunset yoga class which will start at 5:30 p.m. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 9: Arugam Bay Beach – Baby Point – 2 Surf Lessons – Sunset Yoga

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have 2 surfing lessons (one in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, in the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. You will be heading to visit your sunset yoga class which will start at 5:30 p.m. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 10: Baby Point / Okanda Point – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have 2 surfing lessons (one in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, there will be lunch for you (Sri Lankan style buffet lunch). In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. In the evening at around 3 p.m., you will be heading to visit Ancient Okanda Surf Point and you will surf for 4 hours. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 11: Whiskey Point – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons – Boat Safari

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have 2 surfing lessons (one in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, in the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing with the surf teacher in the evening. In the evening at around 4 p.m., you will be heading to visit the lagoon safari by boat. This excursion will take 3 hours. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 12: Arugam Bay Beach – Baby Point – 1 Surf Lesson – Sunset Yoga

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have 1 surfing lesson (in the morning) or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost four hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After the morning surf lesson, in the spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you are free to practice surfing. You will have a sunset yoga class at 5:30 p.m. Once you return to the hotel, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

 

Day 13: Arugam Bay Baby Point – Peanut Farm – Yoga – 2 Surf Lessons

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson in the morning at Baby Point or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have your buffet lunch. After lunch, you will move to Peanut Farm for your next surf lesson or professional surf guiding in the tour and surfing with at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food at a camp fire at the Peanut Farm beach and for the rest of the night, you can enjoy and return to the hotel and rest in the room.

 

Day 14: Arugam Bay Beach – Baby Point – Yoga – 1 Surf Lesson

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). After the breakfast, your morning yoga class will start at 7:30 a.m. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Excellent Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

After this day’s morning surf, all the lessons are finished and hopefully, you will catch your own waves at your own surf spot. Check out is by 11 a.m. Grab some photos in Excellent Surf School to show off to your friends. Make sure you’ve got everyone on Facebook and say goodbye to your surf camp family. They miss you already.

 

Surfing course

Beginners surfing lessons

• Preparations on the beach including safety introduction
• Surfing supported by an instructor
• Time for break/s if needed
• Short wrap-up

 

Level 1 surfing lesson

Level 1 surfing lesson is designed for the complete beginner and for those who have tried surfing a few times but have not been able to catch a wave by themselves. You will learn surfing with the right techniques accompanied with friendly and experienced surfing instructors of The Surfer Arugam Bay. One instructor will guide a maximum of 2 persons. For first-timers, this shorter beginner’s class is recommended, as surfing is a physically demanding sport and can be quite tiring!

 

Level 2 surfing lesson

Level 2 surfing lesson is designed for the surfers who can catch a wave in the white water but want to continue to progress their surfing and learn safety tips, tricks, how to go to the lineup, how to catch a green wave properly, and turn so they can improve from a beginner surfing level to an intermediate one.

 

Intermediate surf lessons

An innovative and unique coaching system for intermediate and advanced surf lessons is thought of as one of the best island-wide. Booking with Sri Lankan Tour Hub is a process where they get to know who you are, where you are in your surfing, and what you want from the course. That attention to your needs and the ability to really expand your surfing is what makes them so special. They have coached right up to top international competitors and have over 10 years of surf coaching experience at the intermediate and advanced levels of surfing.

 

Developing your surfing technique

Board selection and design service is unlike any other surf camp or school. Imagine having just the right board being chosen by your own coach? A board that will really help you have more fun and advance in your surfing.

If you are just moving onto unbroken waves and your first good turns, or if you’re more advanced and you’re already trying to perfect maneuvers, then their coaching will be perfect for you.

They explain techniques clearly and always give you the correct and positive feedback that’s needed. They know they can make a huge difference to your surfing and women’s intermediate and advanced surfing is progressing all the time and their coaching and coaches reflect that too.

 

What you’ll learn.

You will cover at this level:

• Perfecting take off / pop up
• Acceleration techniques
• Core balance in maneuvers
• Top to bottom turns
• Paddle out techniques duck dive
• Paddling technique
• Cutbacks, off the lips, floaters
• Wave formation
• The history of surfing
• Surfboard design
• The rules of surfing
• Tides and how they work
• Fitness for surfing
• Types of surf spots
• Surf prediction

 

Advanced surf lessons

The advanced surf lessons are focused on helping surfers to have more fun by gaining more control and better flow and consistency to your riding in more challenging waves.

 

What will you learn in advanced surf lessons?

• This course will help you improve your bottom turn and to learn top turns or cutbacks, how to duck dive, and how to take control of your speed. Progress from passively gliding down the wave to actively surfing it.
• Learn how to generate speed, choose the right maneuvers to stay in the power pocket of the wave, and how to improve your paddling technique so you use less energy.
• The instructors can also help with advanced takeoff techniques to minimize wipeouts, and help you acquire better wave-reading to avoid close-outs and get a better position in the line-up.

 

How do advanced surf lessons work?

• The instructors will do a short assessment that will help to determine your surfing level, so they can tailor the right training programs with specific exercises for you.
• Depending on your abilities and goals, they will help you focus on the right exercises and on choosing the right equipment. They’ll ensure you don’t limit your development through poor equipment choices, such as having too small a board or the wrong fin set-up, etc.
• All surf instructors are skilled and professional, certified by the International Surfing Association (ISA).
• Sri Lankan Tour Hub keeps the groups small, always working to a maximum of eight students per instructor, in keeping with the recommendation of the ISA.

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• Arugam Bay surf tours

  • Main Point Surf Spot
  • Elephant Rock Surf Spot
  • Whiskey Point Surf Spot
  • Peanut Farm Surf Spot
  • Crocodile Rock Surf Spot
  • Baby Point Surf Spot
  • Okanda Point Surf Spot

  Tours

  • Okanda Hindu Temple
  • Kudumbigala Monastery tour
  • Arugam Bay lagoon boat tour
  • Lahugala National Park elephant safari

This surf camp will take place at “Excellent Surf School” in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka. The camp is located on the beach and that will give you easy access to the surfing spots. It is also less crowded, giving you a hassle-free time to learn surfing properly or enjoy the waves to the fullest. As well as sunrise surf, the sunset surf is the most awesome experience to do.

 

Main Point – Arugam Bay

Arugam Bay’s Main Point is known for its sweeping (400 – 600 meters) right hand point break; the headland is oriented perfectly to receive the South-South-East swell and holds best between 3 – 8 feet. As the wave is situated at the top of this head land, there is no protection from any cross winds during the season. Recommended for intermediate to advanced surfers, this wave can get pretty gnarly on low tide and big swells; keep in mind the reef it rolls over! This is the spot where Sri Lanka’s only international surf competition is held. It’s only a 5-minute walk from Hideaway.

 

Baby Point

Baby Point works from July onward and is technically the continuation of the wave from Main Point. As the wave folds around the headland, it runs into the bay, parallel to the beach. Once the beach has fully formed and all rock and reef has been covered up by sand, Baby Point is at its peak; between 2 – 4 feet. A great setup for beginners and long boarders – leisurely waves and sandy bottoms. A 2-minute walk from Hideaway.

 

Elephant Rock

Elephant Rock can be very technical when it’s working. The right hand wave breaks just off the rocks and often sucks into a barrel. On the outside, however, the wave mellows out as it opens into the bay. Only a deep take off presents any danger; otherwise mostly sandy and cruisy; between 2 – 6 feet.

This spot is another favorite for beginners and surf schools as a result of the sandy bar and the shallow waters from which to assist. More advanced surfers will certainly enjoy the deeper, more technical drop into this wave. Located 10 minutes away by tuk-tuk through farm land and jungle. Scenic; a sunset spot.

 

Whiskey Point

Waves are guaranteed all season long at Whiskey point because of its unique setup. The sweet spot just to the side of the rocks is an easy place to sit – one doesn’t require much effort to get onto a wave when positioned correctly. The right hand wave is not so technical and tends to be fat and slow; between 2 – 6 feet.

Great for learners and a preferred spot for surf lessons. Also, if you are just getting back into the water after awhile and need to regain confidence. 20 minute tuk-tuk ride through farmland and villages.

 

Peanut Farm

There are two breaks here as a result of two head lands made up of rocks and carefully moulded sand. They can loosely be referred to as Main Point and Baby Point of Peanut Farm – Main Point being a highly technical right-hand wave that requires negotiating a steep, fast take off in front of rocks, often barreling between 3 – 6 feet.

Baby Point is technically the continuation of the earlier wave and is a little mellower at this point. Sandy bottom and a slower wave; between 2 – 4 feet.

If you are lucky enough to surf Peanut Farm on a day that both of these points connect, pack your bags and go home, it won’t get any better than this! All levels. Main Point is set up for more advanced surfers; Baby Point is a popular break for beginners. 15 minute tuk-tuk ride through farmland and jungle; scenic.

 

Okanda Surf Point

The very last (legal) surf spot on the east coast provides two options. The main (southern) wave is technical and wild as it is exposed entirely. A gradual rock off to the side creates a suction of water from which a steep, fast right hand wave is created. The water stands tall and maintains its strength all the way to the sand, barreling occasionally; between 3 – 6 feet.

The orientation of large rocks to the north provide some protection from direct swell and create a shallow, sandy bay where long, mellow waves form; between 2 – 4 feet. All levels. The main break should be approached with caution. 45-minute tuk-tuk through jungle; scenic.

 

Distances

• Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI) – 4 hours, 170 kilometers
• Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) – 7 hours and 15 minutes, 415 kilometers via Southern Expy/E01

On this surf camp, you will be served daily breakfast (included in the price). For the rest of the meals, you can have the best local food experience as well as Western and Sri Lankan foods in the local restaurants.

 

• 24 surf lessons or surf guiding (1.5 – 2 hours in the water)
• 14 free yoga session at the ocean view yoga rooftop and on the beach
• Surf tours for all the surf spots
• Kudumbigala Monastery tour
• Arugam Bay Lagoon boat tour
• Lahugala National Park elephant safari
• 2 Sri Lankan cookery class
• 13 nights’ accommodation
• 2 included dinner and lunch feasts of Sri Lankan food, including vegetarian and sea food options
• 13 buffet breakfasts
• 13 after surf smoothies
• Free coffee, tea, and king coconut every day
• Free filtered water top-ups
• Board rental and transfers to the beach of the day
• Small group sizes (between 1 – 3 students per instructor / guide)
• Professional local and foreign internationally qualified instructors
• Professional surf photographer joining you with some lessons
• 1 group video analysis session (30 minutes – one hour in the movie theater)
• Free use of beginner surfboards outside of lesson times
• 10 tuk-tuk surf tours
• High-speed Wi-Fi
• Yoga mat every day

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• Airport pickup from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
• Airport transfers to Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
• Flights to and from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
• Lunch and dinner for 12 days
• Massage and spa treatments
• Optional activities