“Down South - surf camp and turtle beach ”
5 Day Yoga and Surf Camp with Temple, Beach, Blow Hall Tours, and Boat Safari in Sri Lanka
My Surf Camp Surf School, Hiriketiya Beach, Dikwella 81200, Sri Lanka
Yoga and Surf Camp for Beginner and Intermediate in Sri Lanka
Beginner difficulty
Breakfast included
Airport transfer available
Join Sri Lankan Tour Hub at My Surf Camp Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka during this 5-day surf and yoga camp program. There, surfers of any level will be able to refresh themselves and have access to beautiful warm water as well as yoga retreat and meditation for beginners. Hiriketiya has been considered a little slice of paradise by some, the same can be said about the villa, waves, and surroundings.
Meet the instructors
Ranga & Nadeera
Read more
Read more
Highlights
- 5 surf lessons
- 3 yoga classes for beginners
- Experience unlimited surf theory lessons
- Rekawa Turtle Beach, Mulkirigala temple, Blow Hall, and tuk-tuk tours
- Hiriketiya Beach surf lessons and enjoy a boat safari
- 4 nights' accommodation
- 5 breakfasts
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Styles
4 days with instruction
Airport transfer available:
Bandaranaike International Airport (US$ 95 per person)
Bandaranaike International Airport (US$ 95 per person)
Airport transfer available:
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (US$ 50 per person)
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (US$ 50 per person)
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
11:00
Facilities
- Bar
- Café
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Restaurant
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Bicycle rental
- Board rental
- Car rental
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
During this surf holiday, you have the option of staying in a private room in the Tuk Tuk Bay private room, Clay House Villa Hiriketiya, or Jasper House 3-star hotel.
Tuk Tuk Bay Beach Front Villa - Unakuruwa - Tangalle
Located in Unakuruwa village Tangalle, just 8 km from Hummanaya (Blow Hole), Tuk Tuk Bay Surf Beach provides beachfront accommodation with a restaurant, a bar, a garden, and free Wi-Fi. Featuring free private parking, the Tuk Tuk Bay Villa is in an area where guests can engage in activities such as surfing, hiking, snorkeling, and diving.
For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. The restaurant offers a full English/Irish or vegan breakfast. Staff at Tuk Tuk Bay Surf Beach are available to provide guidance at the 24-hour front desk.
The accommodation offers a children's playground. Cycling can be enjoyed nearby, while a bicycle rental service and a private beach area are also available on site. Tangalle Lagoon is 5 km from Tuk Tuk Bay Surf Beach, while Mulkirigala Rock Monastery is 6 km away. The nearest airport is Mattala Rajapaksa International, 73 km from the Tuk Tuk Bay, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Hiriketiya Jasper House (3-star hotel)
Surrounded by leafy coconut palms and ocean views, Jasper House sits on a quiet point at Hiriketiya. Jasper benefits from a degree of separation, making it perfect for those looking for a relaxing break. It’s only a few steps to the surf, take in the view from the rooftop lounge, stretch it out in the yoga shala, enjoy the rock pool or take a short stroll to the beach cafes that line the shore.
Rooms
Open-air rooms invite the sounds of the ocean and swaying palm trees into a relaxing space that fills your soul. Combine this with onsite yoga, pumping surf a stone's throw away, a beautiful rock pool and sunsets from our rooftop lounge - you will not want to leave.
- Deluxe Ocean View
- Deluxe Palm View
- Deluxe Courtyard
- Deluxe Poolside
Sea View Clay Houses
Sea View Clay House Dikwella offers accommodation in Dikwella South. Free private parking is available on site. All rooms feature a seating area where you can relax. A terrace is featured in all rooms. Free good Wi-Fi is available.
Traditional and authentic build houses in mud/clay which keep the heat outside. All situated in an amazing location with a view of the Indian Ocean.
Here you do not find any traffic or restaurant noises. Here you will find the beautiful sound of nature. The waves from the ocean, the sounds of the peacocks and the colorful birds. Very soon the garden will be finished and you will find a small paradise. All rooms feature a seating area/terrace where you can relax.
The hotel is situated within a short walk to both the Hiriketiya beach and the Dikwella beach. The houses are rustically furnished with a comfortable queen bed with an excellent mattress. High-speed WiFi, fan, refrigerator, and kettle. Nice bathroom/shower with hot/cold water. Lovely terrace with sea view.
Most popular facilities
- Beachfront family rooms
- Boat Safari
- Non-smoking rooms
- Barbecue facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Honesty bar
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Tour assistance
- Tuk Tuk and motorbike rent
Program
Day 1: Colombo - Tangalle - Hiriketiya
Once you arrive at Colombo International Airport (CMB), Sri Lankan Tour Hub’s guides will pick you up from the airport. Then, you will directly be transferred to the surf camp in Unakuruwa beach (Tuk Tuk Bay) or Hiriketiya Beach (client can select the campsite according to his favor and price will vary also campsite should be confirmed before two weeks on arrivals), Tangalle, Sri Lanka via E01 Southern Express Highway. It will take 3 hours 22 minutes (217.3 km) via Southern Expy/E01.
This day, the guide will going to show you the city and beach around Tangalle. You will check-in and meet the team. There, you will enjoy seafood beach barbecue local foods and Sri Lankan style cocktails. Afterward, you can visit a beach, music or take a rest as you wish.
Day 2: Hiriketiya Beach - surf lessons and sunset yoga class
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. Travel by tuk-tuk to Hiriketiya beach 20 minutes, you will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Hiriketiya Surf Camp on the beach. That for almost three hours that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkeling, or free to practice surfing in the afternoon. As you like, you can go watch evening sunset locations on the beach and do practicing 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: Yoga - Hiriketiya Beach - Blow Hall - Rekawa Turtle Beach
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Hiriketiya on the beach and waves for almost two hours that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In the spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkeling, or free to practice surfing in the afternoon your own. As you like, you will travel to watch Blow hall its about 30 minutes to drive by tuk-tuk to blow hall. You can stay there until 5 p.m. and come back to yoga class and accommodation. You will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest. Travel to watch turtles at Rekawa on the beach is at 11 p.m.
Five species of turtles struggle ashore to lay their eggs on Rekawa Beach. Groups are led to nest sites to witness these beautiful creatures. some nights the commotion can be deeply disturbing for the turtles. Until management of the project improves. Turtles nest here all year round, but the main season is April to July. The rarest turtles to sight are the giant leatherbacks. The company uses certified guides and spotters; note that torches and flash photography are prohibited.
Day 4: Yoga - Hiriketiya Surf - Mulkirigala Historical Temple
Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily as you wish. After morning yoga, this will be your day three of your surfing career, slap on the sunscreen, take your theory and practical lesson at the theater (the theory is every day and can be before or after the surf session). The afternoon is yours for the taking.
After 4 p.m., you'll have a tour to Mulkirigala historical temple visit by tuk-tuk and then you will move to watch other places, beaches. You will also have a chance to see an evening sunset at the temple's highs point as well as practice yoga and being alone with meditation. Then you will be back to your accommodation.
Day 5: Unakuruwa / Hiriketiya surf - boat safari - surf camp ends
After your breakfast, you will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at the campsite and be provided with surfboards for free surfing. You will have a traditional Sri Lankan breakfast with local foods.
After this day morning surf, all the lessons are finished and hopefully, you will catch your own waves on your own surf spot. After surf, Sri Lankan Tour Hub will bring you tour by boat to see the land side from ocean, its about 40 minutes ride. Check out is by 11:00 a.m. Grab some photos in Surf camp and some mercy 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.
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 by friendly and experienced surfing instructors of The Surfer Weligama. 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 are 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
Yoga Retreat
In this retreat you will learn to find your way back through yoga and meditation. What do I want to achieve, what do I want for this year, what do I want for my life? For this, you deliberately go into silence
You connect with your heart and listen to your inner voice. The voice that is often ignored or suppressed in loud everyday life. You will also learn how to manifest your wishes and make them real, so that 2020 becomes the year of your heart, the year in which everything changes, a year full of miracles
Included excursions
- 3 days Hiriketiya surf lessons
- 3 days beginners yoga/meditation class
- 1-day Unakuruwa surf lessons
- Blow Hall tour
- Rekawa Turtle Beach tour
- Mulkirigala Historical Temple tour
- Boat safari
- Village tours by tuk-tuk
- Tangalle city tour
Instructors
Ranga Shrimal
Ranga Shrimal is a host, the founder, and managing director of Lankan Tour Hub (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to meet friends from all around the world and make them his good friends for a lifetime. He was born in Negombo in 1988. He has always liked to surf and live near the beach and nature. His home now is also located within the mountain range. There, he always finds peace through his meditation sessions. Ranga looks forward to welcoming you very much, and to talking and relaying the many things that he has learned in life, and at the same time learning too.
Nadeera Lakshan
Nadeera is a real Tangalle from a fishermen’s family who grew up with a passion for the sea and started surfing at the age of 8. He is the founder and owner of “Tuk Tuk Bay Surf School since 2014 and your host as well as surf instructor since 2015. He loves to teach the guests how to ride waves, offering great company and insight into his breathtaking culture. He has a ton of experience teaching beginners, intermediates and advanced surfers, always putting the safety of his surfers first.
Location
Hiriketiya Beach
This recently discovered bay is described by all who visit as ‘Paradise’. Hiriketiya Bay is, without doubt, the premier beach of South Sri Lanka. Away from the commercialized tourist zones, Hiriketiya bay feels like a home away from home. Nearby undiscovered bays make the far south coast a hidden gem of swimming, walking and biking trails. Prevailing easterly or westerly winds are kept away by the horseshoe shape of the bay, making swimming and surfing conditions safe all year round.
It is located 22 km (14 mi) east of the city of Matara. Dickwella is noted for its long sandy beach which is protected by headlands, reefs, and sand-bars, making it safer for swimming. Distance from Tuk Tuk Bay - 20 minutes (11 km).
Blow Hall (Hummanaya)
The name Hummanaya is attributed to the noise made when the water gushes up the narrow fissure.
Watch the seawater spurt out to towering heights when it thrusts water against the narrow rocky cove and pushes it through a hole in the rock bed with a ‘wheezing’ sound. Sometimes when the wind conditions are favorable the water sprouts up to a height of 30 meters. This is a rare and exciting natural sight and has been a crowd-puller for many years. Also known as the Hummanaya.
Rekawa Turtles Beach
Five species of turtles struggle ashore to lay their eggs on Rekawa Beach. Groups are led to nest sites to witness these beautiful creatures. some nights the commotion can be deeply disturbing for the turtles. Until the management of the project improves, it's difficult to recommend these tours wholeheartedly.
Turtles nest here all year round, but the main season is April to July. The rarest turtles to sight are the giant leatherbacks. The company uses certified guides and spotters; note that torches and flash photography are prohibited.
Mulkirigala Historical Temple
Dangling off a rocky crag 16 km northwest of Tangalla and nestled away among a green forest of coconut trees are the peaceful rock temples of Mulkirigala. Clamber in sweat up the 500 or so steps and you’ll encounter a series of seven cleft-like caves on five different terraced levels. Housed in the caves are a number of large reclining Buddha statues interspersed with smaller sitting and standing figures.
Temples, in some form or another, have been located here for over 2000 years, but the current incarnations, and their paintings, date from the 18th century. Nearby is a Buddhist school for young monks.
Pali manuscripts found in the monastic library here by a British official in 1826 were used for the first translation of the Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle), which unlocked Sri Lanka’s early history to the Europeans.
Food
On this surf camp, you will be served daily breakfast. For the rest of the meals, you can have the best local food experience as well as the western foods in the local restaurants.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Wildlife photography and safari
What's included
- 5 surf lessons
- 3 yoga classes
- Unlimited surf theory lessons
- Surf equipment is free
- 4 nights' accommodation
- 5 breakfasts
- Hiriketiya Beach surf lessons
- Unakuruwa Bay surf lessons
- Rekawa Turtle Beach tour
- Mulkirigala Temple tour
- Blow Hall tour
- Boat safari
- Tuk-tuk tours
- High-speed Wi-Fi
- Free use of skateboards
- Yoga mat every day
What's not included
- 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 5 days
- Massage and spa treatments
- Optional activities
- Water
- Spa treatments
How to get there
Recommended Airports
CMB
Bandaranaike International Airport
163 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 95 per person
HRI
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
58 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 50 per person
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) or Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI). Transfer from and to these airports are available at an additional cost.
Airport: Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Bandaranaike International Airport (US$ 95 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (US$ 50 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
For this organizer you can guarantee your booking through BookSurfCamps.com. All major credit cards supported.
82090
Similar Surf Camps you might like
Why choose BookSurfCamps.com
Largest Selection
Friendly Customer Service
Offers for every budget
Best Price