Sri Lanka’s hidden pearl
Arugam.info had one last, but very difficult choice to make before the end of this year.
During our 2006 (party) season we started our “Most Romantic Photo” competition.
Inspired by more happy and pretty couples visiting the Bay than ever before, we published many nice shots in our gallery:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf/MostRomanticPhoto06
However, the winning photo has come as a surprise; […]
Congratulations! Monic & Philip!
You are confirmed to be the winners of AbaY’s “Best Surf Photo” competition.
Your photo, as below is this year’s winner!
You have won a FREE two week stay in Arugam Bay, to be taken at anytime during 2007.
Sponsored by AbHa.
Reminder:
Our “Romantic/most Memorable Couple Photo” competition closes Tomorrow.
Please send your final entry Quickly to:
ArugamFoto@Gmail.com
The […]
Arugam.info regrets to inform that there will be No Two Year Rememberance Celebrations this Christmas, as planned.
The traditional Christian Midnight Mass was also cancelled last night.
There are, simply, NO people in town.
In fact we are advised that in the past 30 Years or so it has never been as quiet at any time.
The weather is […]
Tsumani Story
By Alexander Bodman, 2004.
We traveled to Arugam Bay two days before Christmas. Fleur and I had been in Sri Lanka’s tea country, unwinding
in the cool climate of the rolling and heavily cultivated hills. It took three local buses to get to the ocean, the last one
being a rattling old rust bucket with open windows […]
Mini cyclone at Pottuvil
Dec 22,2006 by SL NF
A mini cyclone took place at Pottuvil and Komari areas with heavy rain yesterday morning around 5.00 a.m.More than 50 houses and buildings were damaged. Several trees were uprooted. Komari Maha Vidyalayam was temporarily closed due to this disaster. More than 200 […]
Background
Indian Ocean tsunami
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BANGKOK, 24th December 2006: Habitat for Humanity announced today that in the two years since the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami, the organization has assisted nearly 10,000 families with permanent housing. Habitat has built, repaired and rehabilitated houses with tsunami-affected families in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. […]
WHEN THE WAVE CAME IN, I REMEMBER THINKING: ‘MY ISLAND IS FINISHED!’ BUT WE’RE STILL HERE TODAY, STILL IN SHOCK MAYBE, BUT STILL BREATHING’
Then there are the endless sick days, a problem compounded in Ampara recently by […]
Saturday, December 23, 2006
I like birds with long legs.. and short skirts
I sit here at 7pm on a Friday at work, with a dude loitering around and wating for me to leave so he can follow suit, and to top it off a plane with hopefully me on it is to depart […]
ACT - In Sri Lanka, tsunami work both surges and stops
Geneva, December 22, 2006– A multiplication effect is one way that Linda Tiongco, who is working for the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International in Sri Lanka, describes the progress that has been made in the recovery from the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
While […]
Christian Surfers UK remember tsunami on Boxing Day
Aragum Bay : photo Christian Surfers UK
Tsunami Anniversary
Tsunami - Second Anniversary: Christian Surfers UK Stall - Baggie Point, Boxing Day
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 22 December, 2006 : - - On the second anniversary of the catastrophic south eastern Asia tsunami, […]
Arugam.info recalls that a few months ago an exhibitition was traveling around the hotspots of the Nation.
They never went East, of course.
In vivid pictures, photos, sound & vision someone BIG like the UN staged a few shows around the western part of the island recalling the Country’s saddest day, just two years ago.
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf/TsunamiExhibition
Nature’s huge event […]
The KARUNA office at Kalmunai in Eastern Province was hit and largely destroyed at 20:30 hrs. 20th December, 2006.
Unconfirmed reports claim a number of fatalities.
Our correspondent is still in the area and confirms large structural damage to the building.
Eyewitnesses say that hand held grenade lauchers were employed.
The town is located approx. 3 hrs. North of […]
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