In July, every year, at Arugam’s ‘high’ season, we walk all the way through our Bay.
From the Northern end
at the bridge
right through to the Panama, Southern end at the 6km sign
For the past few years, every single sign, notice board or advert was filmed and preserved, a kind of digital piece of local history.
It also […]
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Colombo, 24 May, (Asiantribune.com): Owner of the Siam View Hotel [SVH] of Arugambay , Dr. Fred Miller complains the Arugambay branch office of a state owned bank terminated their services and defaulted rent payments one month after the tsunami.The Bank was located at the premises of the Siam Hotel , Arugambay and provided ample service […]
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Fresh drinking water at Arugam Bay still presents a major problem, to this very day.
None of the educated (?) NGO’s ever managed to come up with a true, ’sustainable’ idea which actually worked. In more than two years. With millions wasted.
Arugam.info sees no real problem, after all forward thinking Thais have long embraced popular reverse […]
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Mercy Corps received 1 Mill. US$ from the Oprah Winfrey Show, to be spent on “Changing Lives” in Arugam Bay.
The idealistic and well motivated Ms. Lyn Robinson implemented various “lively hood programs”, until her departure last autumn.
AbHa and Arugam.info has always been cold shouldered by Mercy Corps, and there has been an uneasy relationship, which […]
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Fleur Childs
Young Australian artist, Fleur Childs, was “staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs relives and reimagines her experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people.” Childs is a […]
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Arugam.info has just received details of today’s interview with the overseas buyer.
Current buying prices at Arugam Bay are as follows:
Fishing Boat: Rs./ 20,000
Fishing Outboarder, 15 HP Kerosene: 80,000Rs./ (new)
Fishing nets: Depending on net sizes and condition.
contact: 0094 775 45 03 79 (Fawaz)
emai: Seaplaneair@yahoo.co.Uk
It is felt that due to pending East Coast fishing restrictions in the […]
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..the subject of much local gossip and jealousy…
(source: Lonely Planet, 2006 edition, page 273 re. #50 SVH)
With the arrival of a flamboyant and somewhat colourful Australian investor local attention has recently shifted across the road, to a location directly opposite #50 Siam View.
Money changing activities, tour guides, boat trips, three wheeler donations (we have only […]
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