10 Responses to “Old Arugam”

• Thushara

  19/10/2010 at 05:15

  I was in Arugambay on end of September @ Peanut Farm hotel
  spent our holiday with my friends,really it was the greatest holiday which I’ve spend ever!
  that jungle is adventure,beach is amazing & beautiful !!!

  I’m really happy to be there again in that lovely place!

  best regards
  thushara
• muzammil

  23/08/2010 at 15:19

  very lovely potos
• Olga

  13/06/2010 at 01:45

  Hello,
  what is the better and shorter way to Arugam Bay from Colombo?
  Taxi is rather expensive so i wanna find other way which is not very tiresome.
  Thanks in advance.
• Lance

  20/12/2009 at 13:34

  In 1983, I did it in 48 hours via train to Batticaloa, survived election fights over night, bussed down to Pottuvil and another bus to the Bay, with a Wave Ski.
  The war and curfews over the next 4 months. Finally on the way back to Columbo, a lot of what I witnessed on the way in, had been destroyed.
  There were major developments within A’bay during that time, transforming it very quickly from a fishing village to a holiday town.
  ‘Surfed morning and late arvo every day – about 5 hours a day. As the season was turning off into September, surfwise, one afternoon a slight storm sent 8 footers around the Point for a couple of hours. The boardies couldn’t handle the cross-rip and wind on the face for too long, so I was left to goat-boat it all by myself with about x400 Euro Touros spectating.(15 minutes of glory).
  I had got to know a lot of the locals very well during that time and was shocked with the disaster. Photos coming out showed recognisable landmarks destroyed and old friends lost.

  A word of warning: Please take care not to get the sandfly bites (the locals call them cocoanut flies) and cover any lesions and keep them dry – there is a Malaria-like infection caused by the sandflies, called Leishmaniasis. Very nasty get it treated and get out of there and then get treated at home again.

  A lot happened during that 4 months – a lifetime of memories.
• Angela Turner

  01/12/2009 at 08:20

  Mark,
  I am sure if you put a V-8 or two in one of those red buses and ran it on empty you could come close to 41/2 hours. My memories of those red beasts are of teeth clenched, horizontal hairdo and fingernails dug into the shoulders of the person sitting in the seat in front of me.
• dilsiri

  07/09/2009 at 13:36

  my colleage curt did it in 5 and 1/2 hours. in a jeep. you know, now that the roads are being done it would be much easier.
• Tom

  06/09/2009 at 19:08

  I’ve done it in 5hr. 35min. on a fast motorbike, at night.
  Not recommended – but I had to catch a flight.
  and surfed too long.
• mark scanlon

  05/09/2009 at 17:53

  has anyone ever driven to aragumbay from colombo in 4 1/2 hours?????
  that would be a scary ride!!!
• anusar

  19/08/2009 at 14:52

  old vreey nice i love arugam bay pottuvil
• shana

  13/08/2009 at 18:28

  old is gold………. great.. i really love this pictures & all.dear arugam bay ,you have long way to go………….. good luck
  cheers
  chamila

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