Weligama Bay has a long gentle right-hander that works for complete beginners on day one and keeps improving the more time you spend in the water. The fishing village behind the bay is still a working port - boats out before 5am, the morning catch laid out at the harbour by mid-morning. The restaurants that have opened here are genuinely good.
Hiriketiya
The horseshoe bay that the surf crowd found and kept quiet
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.
