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It’s going to be an exiting one!
We predict that a huge Energy will unfold during this powerful Year
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Season Greetings from the Bay of Arugam !
A very peaceful, Happy Christmas to you All !
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Come and admire our amazing, totally FREE Wild Life NOW.
Before it gets spoiled and Commercial.
On Mother’s Day 2011 the poplar Facebook page “Arugam Surf” reached a new record and milestone.
Greetings from Arugam Bay
This Community page now has more than 30,000 friends from all over the globe.
An interesting observation:
More than 20,000 are young ladies – a sign that the Bay is not only of interest to the die hard male dominated surfing Community.
Eve Fletcher. A remarkable lady surfer @ 84 ripe years
Arugam’s 2011 season is going to be a blast!
Just a few more days before High Season starts.
On this occasion, below are a few facts & figures.
Arugam.info web Mistress informs
Arugam.info
Is perhaps Sri Lanka’s oldest web site.
We have been on line for more than 15 years – well before anyone else know what Internet was and what it can do – here on this island.
Now we are well connected and teamed up with all modern social networking sites.
We have embraced Facebook, Twitter and YouTube a long time ago.
Because all of them offered totally free services to promote our remote little Bay.
We are happy to publish the following facts:
- 200,707 Visitors to this site (since 2010) on Arugam.info
- 100 registered readers (guys who get a short summary into their email)
- 1,300 unique Posts
- 1,600 Comments
- 400,000 spam messages and posts. All intercepted and blocked
- 12 Scheduled posts (Important articles which will automatically be published)
- 470 Tweets on our Twitter site
- 117 Followers on Twitter
We are amazed how well our associated Facebook page has done:
- 25,640 Friends on “Arugam Surf“
- 51% FEMALE FB friends !!
- 43% Male users
- 12,000 of our ‘fans’ are from Sri Lanka
- 6,000 from Indonesia
- 2,000 from the Philippines, etc. down to:
- 107 Germans ….. only.
- 300,000+ page views
Done! Super Happy ARUGAM !
We managed to resurrect our popular Facebook page “Arugam Surf”.
Which was knocked off the net exactly 2 months ago.
Please join, participate, submit YOUR photos, videos. Let’s make this page even more popular.
Please understand that we had to add additional security features to avoid access to our hacker ‘friends’ in future.
At normal weekends, like today, Arugam Bay receives about 2,000 visitors. Most are day trippers at this time of season.
The next long , Poya Weekend (23rd.) will be much more busy.
In total, the Bay seen more than 10,000 foreign tourists and surfers this year.
In 2011 more than 100,000 are expected to visit popular Arugam Bay
More facilities and specially good quality rooms are needed now!
Sripala’ s Place is one of the most original and oldest establishment of Arugam Bay.
They are situated near famous Surf Point for many years.
Sripala & Family, at Arugam Bay
Arugam.info has just been notified of a legal case to relocate them.
As soon as we receive confirmation and further information, details will be published here.
For now, please send us your old memories so that we can add them to our “Old Arugam” section. To document the Bay’s history.
Send them to: arugam.info@gmail.com
And all will be published here:
http://www.arugam.info/old-arugam/
“Abay has to be like Bournville chocolates.
You dont just go to Abay, U have to earn it 
”
by Vishan Batepola on “Arugam Surf” Facebook page
A brilliant quote!
And, as everybody who came through the jungle road of Lahugala knows:
It’s true!
Once you reached remote Arugam Bay - you have a feeling that you did EARN it.
You finally arrived in a totally unspoiled, True Paradise!
Sri Lankan Airlines Pro
ASP 6 Star WQS Men’s event,
Arugam Bay Sri Lanka,
16 – 24 June 2010.
Sri Lankan surfers to get wildcards into
arugam.info's webmistress has been asked to publish this press release. Next time the boys will supply their own photo material, to make any new post more attractive.....;-)
The Surfing Sri Lanka movement recently created by the new Surfing Federation of Sri Lanka received a major boost today when it was confirmed by the ASP that 2 local Sri Lankan surfers will benefit from wildcard entries into the first major Association of Surfing Professionals international tour event to ever be staged in the country’s history.
The 6 Star WQS Sri Lankan Airlines Pro to be held on Sri Lanka’s east coast at the world famous Arugam Bay between 16 – 24 June will now see some local surfers strutting their stuff amongst the world’s best contenders on the WQS circuit. Two Sri Lankan surfers will gain entry to the elite event as part of the ASP’s strategy to assist and promote local surfing at a variety of surfing locations worldwide.
It is proposed that the Surfing Sri Lanka Trials event will be conducted the day prior to the main ASP event start in order to select 8 local surfers who will then surf-off in two x 4 man elimination heats. The first and second place-getters of each elimination heat will then advance to Continue reading ‘Arugambay’s Surf Club’s 1st Press release’
(0)Another preview from Arugam Bay’s future surf/webcam location
Web Cam preview showing 50 SVH and beach
View North towards lagoon, bridge and PottuVille
Arugam's Steeplejacks & webcam replacements on tower duty
Advance notice to all Football lovers:
arugam.info is pleased to inform you that ALL games will be shown LIVE on at least two BIG screens at Arugam Bay this summer.
Surround sound, good vibes, open air cinema, BBQ and all the trimmings.
More details will follow soon.
Be here.
With us in the famous Bay!
Thank you, Horst & Tina! Arugam Bay’s German supporters.
Also a special Thank you!
To all the contributing photographers!
All is quiet and peaceful on the Eastern Front, we are happy to confirm.
Arugam.info is totally neutral and will always remain stricly non-political.
We are however committed to publish any relevant article, which our semi-automatic system detects somewhere on the wide Internet, whenever the word “Arugam” is mentioned.
History will be made in just two days time.
So safety and security is very relevant.
Too young to vote. But this boy knows that his motherland is going through exiting, decisive times
The best will emerge as a winner.
In this context, the article below is political, but also relevant. Because it addresses the mood in and around Arugam Bay and on its approach roads.
Relevant, because some fear violence after the election; there might be a bad looser around and suporters may be very disappointed.
As far as we can judge, there is no danger at all in and around Arugam Bay.
As a resort, we are happy to recommend a short, safe holiday break aways from possible trouble elsewhere in the aftermath of the vote count.
Here is Nirmala’s personal assessment of the mood around our Bay:
Nirmala Kannangara in Arugam Bay
The lone supporter of …….. Continue reading ‘A safe, heavenly Haven: Arugam Bay’
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