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Dive and Surf Camp in Sri Lanka

All difficulty levels
Instruction in English
Breakfast included
Airport transfer included

Sri Lanka - the pearl of the Indian Ocean, offers a myriad of diving and surf adventures, from vibrant coral reefs teeming with tropical fish, to countless sunken wrecks and waves always waiting to be explored! Sri Lankan Tour Hub is here to offer you the best level of service to make your diving and surf holiday perfect. If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure, and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

Meet the instructors

Ranga & Sahan
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Highlights

  • All the equipment
  • 3 free yoga sessions
  • 3 beginners surf lessons
  • 5 open water discover dives and 1 night dive
  • Interesting tuk-tuk surf tours
  • 7 nights accommodation
  • Daily delicious breakfast
  • Airport pick up

Skill level

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

Styles


6 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Spanish
Airport transfer included: Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer included: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
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Accommodation

Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
11:00

Facilities

  • Hot spring
  • Swimming pool (outdoor)
  • Air-conditioned rooms
  • Bar
  • Barbeque facilities
  • Café
  • Concierge desk
  • Dining area
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Garden
  • Honesty bar
  • Lobby
  • Luggage room / storage
  • Multilingual staff
  • Picnic area
  • Poolside bar
  • Restaurant
  • Special menu request
  • Yoga deck
  • Yoga shala
  • Baby sitting
  • Bicycle rental
  • Board rental
  • Car rental
  • Conference room
  • Currency exchange
  • Dry cleaning
  • Free parking
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Internet access
  • Ironing / ironing board
  • Laptop rental
  • Laundry
  • Medical assistance
  • Meeting room
  • Parking lot
  • Tour assistance
  • Wireless internet

During this dive tour, you have the option of staying in a private room in villas or hostels that depend on your budget or needs.

Program

Requirements

  • Age: 12 years or older
  • Time commitment: Approximately 8 - 15 hours course prerequisites
  • Able to swim
  • Medically fit for diving and surfing

The PADI discover diver course consists of three main phases:

  • Knowledge development (online, independent study / in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
  • Confined water dives to learn basic scuba skills
  • Open water dives to use your skills and explore!

You may be able to get college credit for the open water diver course. Short on time? The PADI discover scuba diver course might be right for you.

If you've always wanted to try scuba diving, but don’t want to commit to the full PADI open water certification then this is for you! Sri Lankan Tour Hub's professional team of international PADI instructors can introduce you to the equipment in the swimming pool, before taking you on your first underwater adventure! In the ocean, you can admire the wonderfully diverse marine life.

Schedule

Day 1: Colombo Airport - Hikkaduwa Beach

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 Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka via E01 Sothern Express Highway.

On this day, the guides will show you the city and beach around Hikkaduwa. 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 or take a rest as you wish.

Day 2: Hikkaduwa (1 dive) - rock outcrops, reef, and ridges - staying in Hikkaduwa

What will you do?

  • 1 hour video annalists education
  • Practice in swimming pool
  • The program starts at 9:30 a.m. at the dive shop on the beach
  • 45 minutes water dive practice
  • Learn safety and how to use equipment

With qualification, one can then visit the deeper sites, caverns, rock outcrops, reef, and ridges, as well as the shipwrecks that this area is famous for. Well maintained and populated with several colorful specie of reef and rock dwellers, the sites abound with plant and corals. Pelagic specie, like tuna, mackerel, bonito, trevally, and barracuda make their regular visits.

The grouper with their attendant cleaner wrasse and Morays peering out inquisitively from homes, live in symbiosis with colorful shrimp. Parrot fish constantly patrol, and trigger fish dart over the rocks, while several species of surgeon fish are ever present.

You will begin your day with enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a discover diving lessons or professional dive guiding at a diving school near the beach for almost three hours, then you can collect your basic equipment and start your practice and discover diving at Hikkaduwa Diving Center with the team.

After diving, you can visit places in Hikkaduwa city like the shopping center. You will also have a chance to see an evening sunset at the same point. You will have your dinner at the Hikkaduwa Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 3: Hikkaduwa - Galle Dutch Fort - Unawatuna Beach

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). Today, you will have a wonderful tour in Galle Dutch Fort. Galle is the place where the Portuguese made their initial landing in 1505, when they made their first foray into the unknown (to them) lands of Sri Lanka.

After this excursion and after lunch time, you will travel to Unawatuna city for the next dive camp center and then, you will move to watch other beaches, dive shop, and accommodation. You will also have a chance to feel an evening sunset at the Unawatuna Beach. You will have your dinner at the Unawatuna Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 4: Unawatuna Napoleon Reef dive (2 dives) - move to Weligama City

This stunning diving site is located five minutes away from the dive center to the left side. This starts with six meters and you can go 18 meters under. The reef spreads one kilometer and you can see rocks and the reef area. There are many different kinds of reef fishes. You can see napoleon fish; one fish is 40 kilograms or more. There are many groupers, moray ells, various types of sea plants, and slugs. This is one of the great and stunning dive sites located in Unawatuna.

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a discover diving lessons or professional dive guiding at a diving school near the beach for almost three hours, then you can collect your basic equipment and start your practice and discover diving at the Napoleon Reef with the team.

After lunch time, you will travel to Weligama City for the next dive camp center and then you will move to watch other beaches, dive shop, and accommodation. You will also have a chance to feel an evening sunset and practice beginners surfing lessons there. You will have your dinner at the Weligama Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 5: Weligama (1 dive) - Dispa Rock - Bridge Rock - staying in Weligama (1 night dive)

Dispa Rock is a massive rock formation that rises above 15 meters from the sea bed. Its pinnacle is about 5 meters from the surface. And this is the deepest and most exotic diving site accessible for now from Weligama and Mirissa area. Spotted are wide range of marine life including triggerfish. You may be lucky to spot blues and sperms (whale) too at this spot.

Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily as you wish). This will be day four of your diving career, so 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 dive session), jump in a tuk tuk, and head to the dive school for either a lesson or guided dive in Dispa Rock.

After dives, you can chill in the afternoon with some beach games such as surfing. You may explore Weligama, shop, relax at the beach, or grab a board and jump in for a free surf. There are optional adventures for you to do in the afternoons if you don’t feel like surfing again.

  • Basic yoga class starts at 5:30 p.m.
  • Discover adventure night dive starts at 7:30 p.m. till 8:30 p.m.

You will have your dinner on the beach. You can have your rest or go to enjoy the DJ music in the night as per your choice.

Day 6: Beginners surf lesson and sunset yoga class

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 My Surf Camp 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 for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you're free to practice surfing in the afternoon. You can go watch the evening sunset on the beach and do yoga with a yoga teacher till the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy a barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

Day 7: Surf lesson - sunset yoga

Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily as you wish). This will be day five of your surfing career, so 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), 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.

You may explore Weligama, shop, relax at the beach, or grab a board and jump in for a free surf. They will have recommended optional adventures for you to do in the afternoons if you don’t feel like surfing again.

At the end of the day, head back to camp, enjoy your free yoga session at sunset. They will show and teach you how to make Sri Lankan food by yourself such as rice and curry with coconut and coconut milk too. Enjoy your own dinner and end the day with some well-deserved beers and as you wish.

Day 8: Weligama - surfing - tour end

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 all the lessons are finished, hopefully you will be able to catch your own dive/surf at your own dives/surf spot. Check out is by 11:00 a.m. Grab some photos to show off to your friends. Make sure you’ve got everyone on Facebook and Instagram and say goodbye to your dive camp family. They miss you already.

Surfing

Beginners surfing lessons

  • Age requirement: 6 years old minimum
  • 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 not tried surfing and 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. One instructor will guide a maximum of two persons. This is 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 wipe-outs, 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.

Included excursions

  • Galle Dutch Fort tour

Discover diving in Hikkaduwa

  • 1 dive for beginners and 2 dives for certificated divers

Discover diving in Unawatuna

  • 2 dives for all the divers

Discover diving in Weligama

  • 1 day dive and 1 night dive for all the divers
  • Jungle Beach tour

Instructors

Ranga Shrimal

Sahan Damayantha

Location

Weligama

The dive camp in Weligama will take place at Weligama Bay Diving Center. The camp is located near the beach 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.

Here is also one of the best places to go dolphin watching during the whale season: November - April.

The camp is located on the beach 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.

Food

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

The following meals are included:

  • Breakfast
  • Drinks

The following drinks are included:

  • Coffee
  • Tea

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

  • Vegetarian
  • Seafood
  • Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What's included

  • 5 discover dives and 1 night dive
  • 3 surf lessons or surf guiding (1.5 - 2 hours in the water)
  • 3 free yoga session at the ocean view yoga rooftop and on the beach
  • Unlimited surf theory lessons
  • Galle Dutch Fort tour
  • Tuk-tuk surf tours
  • 1 day Sri Lankan cookery class
  • 7 nights accommodation
  • Daily breakfast
  • 1 dinner Sri Lankan rice and curry
  • Free coffee, tea, and king coconut every day
  • Free filtered water top-ups
  • Board rental and transfers to the beach of the day
  • Free use of beginner surfboards outside of lesson times
  • Airport pickup
  • Small group sizes (between 1 - 2 students per instructor/guide)
  • Professional local internationally qualified instructors
  • Professional surf photographer joining you with some lessons
  • Free use of skateboards
  • Yoga mat every day

What's not included

  • Airport transfers to Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
  • Flights to and from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
  • Lunch and dinner for 8 days
  • Massage and spa treatments
  • Optional activities

How to get there

Recommended Airports

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) or Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI). Transfer from either of these airports is included. Sri Lankan Tour Hub will pick you up from the airport. Only pick up is included in the price.

Airport: Bandaranaike International Airport Airport transfer included: Bandaranaike International Airport No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport Airport transfer included: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport No additional charges. 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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