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Surf Travel with Kids No.1: Waves,Trains, Rickshaws and Kids! Say what??

  • thewhale
  • Apr 15, 2014
  • 2 min read

Surf Travel is an ever expanding business and the concept of a surf holiday is very popular amongst those of you who can afford it. Most surf travellers head off in their youth and tear up Indo, Australia etc. A lesser beaten track is the family surf holiday, which may not be on the radar of the young, footloose and fancy free, but when you get married, settle down and have kids you may even start to think that maybe the only way to score epic waves is to bite the bullet, take the family, teach the kids and embrace the chaos. thewhale has just done this in Sri Lanka and it was a great success.....

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Sri Lanka offers a world of possibilities for families. You can surf on both sides of the island (5-7hour drive between the two with waves on the way), hire amazing villas near the ocean, eat super cheap food, watch your kids play on the beach whilst you're sipping sundowners with the locals, watch world class cricket, take cool old train rides along the south coast and even head out on safari and see herds of wild elephants roaming free when it gets flat. thewhale was there in late July and did all of the above.

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A week in the Galle area surfing empty, not perfect, but sizeable waves before heading to Arugam Bay via the lovely Dikwella where we stayed at a simple beach side hostel with ex Bondi cafe owner Marty, his partner and their new baby. We paddled out in the morning to an empty line up of head high plus waves, and this was the off season. Arugam bay was paradise, thewhale and his pod stayed in a backpackers on the beach and headed off to Peanut Farm, Crocodile Rock and the main break on a daily basis, although these waves were less suited to young kids than those around the Galle area and south coast. You can go at all times of year and if you went in January-April the other coast, closer to Colombo goes off too; the main wave there being Hikkaduwa.

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Here are a few links to places thewhale enjoyed:

Galle

Dikwella

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