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7 Day Yoga Holiday with Meditation and Beginner Surf Lessons in Dikwella, Sri Lanka
My Surf Camp Surf School, Hiriketiya Beach, Dikwella 81200, Sri Lanka
Refreshing Surf and Yoga Holiday in Sri Lanka
Beginner difficulty
Instruction in English
Breakfast included
Airport transfer available
Join Sri Lankan Tour Hub at My Surf Camp Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka during this 7-day surf and yoga camp program. If you are a surfer of any level and a beginner yogi, you will be able to refresh yourself and have access to the beautiful warm water, yoga retreat, and meditation practices. 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
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Highlights
- Rejuvenate with 10 yoga and meditation classes
- Learn from 6 beginner surf lessons
- Experience Sri Lankan cookery class
- Explore Rekawa Turtles Beach, Blow Hall and boat safari
- Enjoy unlimited surf theory lessons and free use of surfboards
- Tuk-tuk tours and historical temple tours
- 6 nights' of relaxing accommodation
- 6 delicious breakfasts
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Styles
6 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Sinhalese, Spanish
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
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Special menu request
- Yoga deck
- Bicycle rental
- Board rental
- Car rental
- Currency exchange
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Meeting room
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
During this surf holiday, you have the option of staying in a private room in Clay House Villa Hiriketiya.
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 are situated in an amazing location with a view of the Indian Ocean.
Here you do not find any traffic or restaurant noises. 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. There are high-speed WiFi, fan, refrigerator, kettle, nice bathroom/shower with hot/cold water, lovely terrace with sea view.
Program
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 the new year becomes the year of your heart, the year in which everything changes, a year full of miracles
Day 1: Hiriketiya Village tour
Check-in is at noon. Once you arrive at Sea View Clay House, this day, the guide will show you the village and beach around Hiriketiya. You will check in and meet the team.
You will have your lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkel, and more. You can go watch sunset locations on the beach. you will enjoy a barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.
Day 2: Sunrise yoga - surf lessons - sunset yoga and meditation
Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily as you wish. This will be the first day of your surfing and yoga career. Sunrise yoga class starts at 7 a.m. until 8.15 a.m., after yoga class, slap on the sunscreen, take your theory and practical lesson on the beach, jump in a tuk-tuk, and head to the surf school for either a lesson or guided surf. The afternoon is yours for the taking.
At the end of the day, head back to camp and enjoy your free yoga session at sunset at 5.30 pm, In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.
Day 3: Sunrise yoga - surf lessons - Sri Lankan cookery class - sunset yoga
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. After yoga in the morning, You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Hiriketiya on the beach and waves for almost two hours so that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkel, or free practice surfing in the afternoon on your own. You can stay there until 5 p.m. come back to yoga class and accommodation at Clay House. The villa staff will teach you how to make Sri Lankan food on your own such as rice and curry with coconut, and coconut milk, how to break a coconut, and about Ayurveda food as well. Enjoy your dinner and end the day with some well-deserved beers, surf movies, and as you wish.
Day 4: Yoga - surf lesson - Blow Hall - yoga class
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. After yoga and meditation in the morning, you will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Hiriketiya on the beach and waves for almost two hours so that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkel, or free practice surfing in the afternoon on your own. As you like, you will travel to watch Blow Hall which is about 30 minutes to drive by tuk-tuk. You can stay there until 5 p.m. come back to yoga class and accommodation. You will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.
Day 5: Yoga - surf lessons - yoga and meditation - Turtles Beach
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. After yoga in the morning, You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at Hiriketiya on the beach and waves for almost two hours so that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkel, or free practice surfing in the afternoon on your own. You can stay free until 5 p.m. to 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 at 11 p.m.
Day 6: Yoga - surf lesson - Mulkirigala 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 day five of your surfing and yoga career, slap on the sunscreen, and take your theory and practical lesson at the beach. The afternoon is yours for the taking.
After 4 p.m., you have to decide on a tour of the Mulkirigala historical temple visit by tuk-tuk and then you will move to watch other places, including beaches. You will also have a chance to see a sunset at the Temple's high point. as well as practice yoga and be alone with meditation. the tour will be back in your accommodation.
Day 7: Yoga - surf lessons - boat tour and snorkeling
After your breakfast and sunrising yoga class, you will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at the campsite and be provided with surfboards for free surfing like daily.
After this day of morning surf, all the lessons are finished and hopefully, you will catch your waves on your surf spot. after a surf, the team will bring you on a tour by boat to see the land side of the ocean, it is about 40 40-minute ride. There, the group will arrange free snorkeling equipment and reef snorkeling to see a lot of fish species.
Check-out is by noon. Grab some photos in the surf camp and some mercy to show off to your friends. Make sure you have got everyone on Facebook and Instagram to say goodbye to your surf camp family. They miss you already.
Beginner 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 surfing 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 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 services are unlike any other surf camp or school. Imagine having just the right board chosen by your coach. A board that will 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 are more advanced and you are 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 coaches reflect that too.
What you will 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 and meditation
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.
Included excursions
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 16km 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 will 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.
Other excursions
- Boat tour and snorkeling
- 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 a 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 kilometers (14 miles) 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.
Hiriketiya Jasper House
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.
Features
General
- Dining area
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Yoga deck
Services
- Bicycle rental
- Board rental
- Car rental
- Currency exchange
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Meeting room
- Tour assistance
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 in Hiriketiya.
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
What's included
- 10 yoga classes
- 6 surf lessons
- Unlimited surf theory lessons
- Surfboards and equipment are free
- 1 night Sri Lankan cookery class and dinner
- Hiriketiya Beach surf lessons
- Rekawa Turtle Beach tour
- Mulkirigala Temple tour
- Blow Hall tour
- Boat safari and snorkeling
- Tuk-tuk tours
- High-speed Wi-Fi
- Yoga mat every day
- 6 nights accommodation
- 6 breakfasts
What's not included
- Airport transfers from and to Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
- Flights to and from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
- Lunch and dinner for 7 days
- Massage and spa treatments
- Optional activities
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). Transfers from and to these airports are available at additional costs.
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.
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