Among hundreds of touristic sites, Sri Lanka is also home for an enormous non touristic locations. These are the true hidden gems in Sri Lanka. In such locations, one could enjoy the authentic Sri Lanka in it’s true form. The non mainstream tourist sites in Sri Lanka are scattered around the country spreading from Jaffna to the central highlands to the south coast. You could enjoy among the fisher communities on a seclude beach faraway from popular beach destination. Battalangunduwa, Delft Island & Mannar Island are some prime example for such rural Sri Lankan beach attractions.

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but also blessed with one of the world’s top ten surfing Sites. The advantage of Sri Lanka as a Surfing destination is that you could enjoy it year round due to the uniqueness of the county’s topography. In the East coast where the weather is best during May to October, Arugumbay is “The surfing location”. Arugumbay is among the World’s top ten Surf spots. From November until April, the surfers could enjoy their game in the West coast. Namely in Weligama & Hiriketiya beaches. When you are planning your next Surfing vacation this would be of paramount importance to remember. There are dozens of other sites such as Hikkaduwa, Unawatuna, Devata, Bentota & Mirissa which are famous surfing sites in Sri Lanka’s west coast.

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