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Life is a Beach!

Where? At Arugam Bay of course!

All is quiet, calm, peaceful, blue and pretty in the remote little Bay of Arugam.
Also:

Swell is UP!

See you on the beach this coming weekend?



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Expat Photos

Sri Lanka. A famous surf spot in eastern Sri Lanka to the north of Arugam Bay, January, 2008. Photo: Fred Ne-Miller, SVH, Arugam Bay
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arugam.info is honoured!
The above photo was selected by the the Daily Telegraph, London and published online today; see link below.
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Tim is not in Taunton, but in Arugambay

Car Park Charity

devon.editorial@archant.co.uk
12 March 2008
LOCAL charity Paddle 4 Relief is celebrating receipt of a cheque of one day’s takings during Saunton Beach car park’s recent charity week.The £662.50 will help to continue the vital relief work the charity is undertaking for the forgotten victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Sri Lanka.Charity committee member […]



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Arugam answers Rio

Arugam.info has received VERY pretty photos from our Brazil friends.
Sorry, dudes, Sri Lanka is not Rio and we cannot publish your explicit photos of your great Carnival on this web site ;-(((
However, we can do better and even more nude than you!
Here is an impression of our new, young, female surfing generation; at Carnival time:

Photos […]



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Arugam Bay Impressions

Arugam als Erlebnis
Here is an article received from our good friends and strong AbaY supporters in Germany.
www.sri-lanka-board.de

Ich möchte hier die Möglichkeit nutzen, Euch die wunderschöne Ostküste ein wenig näher zu bringen.
Der vom Tourismus weitgehend erschlossene Westen des Landes ist sicher vielen Lesern bekannt, jedoch landschaftlich ebenso anders , wie auch in […]



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55ft Surf

Not at Arugambay - but in Ireland:
Surfer defies giant waves alert

See more pictures of Duncan Scott at Mullagmore Head

In pictures

A Cornish surfer defied warnings to ride what are thought to be the biggest waves recorded off the west coast of Ireland. Duncan Scott, 29, from Newquay, was surfing at Mullagmore […]



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Arugam Bay is a surf spot

Arugam Bay the Surfers paradise
November 30, 2007 – 11:47 am Arugam Bay is located in the East cost of Sri Lanka, the unspoiled beautiful beach is a must visit place. Arugam Bay is with an easy reach of the town Pottuvil and you can visit many interesting and beautiful places like Yala, Kataragama, Lahugala National […]



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1600 Ship Wrecks between Arugambay and Galle

Hidden Treasure

25 November:34:06

By Gayan Ratnayake

Sri Lanka a treasure trove of unexplored maritime history: archaeologists

Nov 25, 2007 (LBO) – Archaeologists working on a Dutch colonial era shipwreck in Sri Lanka’s southern Galle port say 12 more wrecks lie submerged, awaiting excavation and cataloging as historical treasure.

“There are 27 sites which contain 12 shipwrecks in the Galle […]



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Air Service to Arugam Bay

More domestic air services will help boost tourism in the East
The tourism sector is not threatened by the war and the number of tourist arrivals has increased during the past two months. Tourism in the Eastern Province will develop if there are more domestic aircraft services, said Managing Director Arugam Bay Travels and Tours (Pvt) […]



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Surf’s up

Surf’s up
Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka - 26 Aug ‘06
(but only discovered on the net October, 2007)
Text: Pablo Chaterji
Photos: Pablo Chaterji
Hitting the waves in Sri Lanka

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Arugam Surf

As some of you know, I returned in the past few days from three weeks in Sri Lanka, where I was joined by the always-available Clint and the heretofore little-known ‘Sylvestre’ (not the cat, the French astrophysicist).While the destination changed from Australia (where Sylvestre currently lives) to Sri Lanka a few weeks before our departure […]



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Surf Relief PR

Background to Sri Lanka Projects
 
TSUNAMI Surf Relief UK (now Surf Relief UK), the organisation that helped co-ordinate the UK surfing communities’ response to the Asian Tsunami of Boxing day 2004, has made real impact on the East coast of Sri Lanka, building houses, employing teachers and helping […]



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