Hiriketiya is a bowl-shaped bay with a consistent beach break, warm water and a strip of genuinely good beach cafes behind the sand. It has the energy of a surf town that hasn’t quite been discovered yet, which is exactly why it keeps appearing in the itineraries of travellers who have been to Weligama and want something different.
Arugam Bay
Sri Lanka’s east coast surf capital - and a genuinely good one
Main Point in Arugam Bay delivers a long right-hander from May to October that works for complete beginners and rewards experience. The town behind it is low-key in the way only places that haven’t been over-discovered can be - a few genuinely good restaurants, Pottuvil Lagoon five minutes away by boat and a pace entirely unlike the south coast.
