Arugam Bay
East-coast point break and lagoon. A destination for nights, in the months the south coast is wet.
Arugam Bay faces the other monsoon. May to September is when this coast is generally the clearer one, and when we would rather put a beach holiday here than in Mirissa or Ahangama. The bay is known for a long, consistent wave. The lagoon is the quieter day.
It is not a side trip from the published Mirissa sample. The drive from Colombo or from Yala eats a day. If the east coast is the point, we build the nights around the bay and treat surfing lessons as something you opt into, the way the south-coast sample treats them.