On this dive and surf camp, you will be served daily breakfast, included in the price. For the rest of the meals, you can have the best local food experience as well as western and Sri Lankan food in local restaurants.

The following meals are included:

• Breakfast
• Drinks

The following drinks are included:

• Coffee
• Tea

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

• Vegetarian
• Seafood
• Ayurvedic

The PADI discover diver course consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge development (online, independent study / in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
• Confined water dives to learn basic scuba skills
• Open water dives to use your skills and explore

You may be able to get college credit for the open water diver course. Short on time? The PADI discover scuba diver course might be right for you.

If you've always wanted to try scuba diving, but don’t want to commit to the full PADI open water certification then this is for you! Sri Lankan Tour Hub's professional team of international PADI instructors can introduce you to the equipment in the swimming pool, before taking you on your first underwater adventure! In the ocean, you can admire the wonderfully diverse marine life.

Schedule

Day 1: Colombo Airport - Hikkaduwa Beach

Once you arrive at Colombo International Airport (CMB), Sri Lankan Tour Hub’s guides will pick you up from the airport. Then, you will directly be transferred to the Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, via E01 Sothern Express Highway.

On this day, the guides will show you the city and beach around Hikkaduwa. You will check-in and meet the team. There, you will enjoy seafood beach barbecue local foods and Sri Lankan style cocktails. Afterward, you can visit a beach or take a rest as you wish.

Day 2: Hikkaduwa (1 dive) - rock outcrops, reef, and ridges - staying in Hikkaduwa

What will you do?

• 1 hour video annalists education
• Practice in swimming pool
• The program starts at 9:30 a.m. at the dive shop on the beach
• 45 minutes water dive practice
• Learn safety and how to use equipment

With qualification, one can then visit the deeper sites, caverns, rock outcrops, reef, and ridges, as well as the shipwrecks that this area is famous for. Well maintained and populated with several colorful species of reef and rock dwellers, the sites abound with plant and corals. Pelagic species, like tuna, mackerel, bonito, trevally, and barracuda, make their regular visits.

The grouper, with their attendant cleaner wrasse and morays peering out inquisitively from homes, live in symbiosis with colorful shrimp. Parrot fish constantly patrol, and trigger fish dart over the rocks, while several species of surgeon fish are ever present.

You will begin your day with enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a discover diving lesson or professional dive guiding at a diving school near the beach for almost three hours, then you can collect your basic equipment and start your practice and discover diving at Hikkaduwa Diving Center with the team.

After diving, you can visit places in Hikkaduwa city like the shopping center. You will also have a chance to see an evening sunset at the same point. You will have your dinner at the Hikkaduwa Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 3: Hikkaduwa - Galle Dutch Fort - Unawatuna Beach

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). Today, you will have a wonderful tour in Galle Dutch Fort. Galle is the place where the Portuguese made their initial landing in 1505, when they made their first foray into the unknown (to them) lands of Sri Lanka.

After this excursion and after lunch time, you will travel to Unawatuna city for the next dive camp center and then, you will move to watch other beaches, dive shop, and accommodation. You will also have a chance to see an evening sunset at the Unawatuna Beach. You will have your dinner at the Unawatuna Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 4: Unawatuna Napoleon Reef dive (2 dives) - move to Weligama City

This stunning diving site is located five minutes away from the dive center to the left side. This starts with six meters and you can go 18 meters under. The reef spreads one kilometer and you can see rocks and the reef area. There are many different kinds of reef fishes. You can see napoleon fish; one fish is 40 kilograms or more. There are many groupers, moray eels, various types of sea plants, and slugs. This is one of the great and stunning dive sites located in Unawatuna.

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a discover diving lessons or professional dive guiding at a diving school near the beach for almost three hours, then you can collect your basic equipment and start your practice and discover diving at the Napoleon Reef with the team.

After lunch time, you will travel to Weligama City for the next dive camp center and then you will move to watch other beaches, dive shop, and accommodation. You will also have a chance to feel an evening sunset and practice beginner surfing lessons there. You will have your dinner at the Weligama Beach and come back to your accommodation.

Day 5: Weligama (1 dive) - Dispa Rock - Bridge Rock - staying in Weligama (1 night dive)

Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily as you wish). This will be day four of your diving career, so slap on the sunscreen, take your theory and practical lesson at the theater (the theory is every day and can be before or after the dive session), jump in a tuk-tuk, and head to the dive school for either a lesson or guided dive in Dispa Rock.

Dispa Rock is a massive rock formation that rises above 15 meters from the sea bed. Its pinnacle is about 5 meters from the surface. And this is the deepest and most exotic diving site accessible for now from Weligama and Mirissa area. Spotted are wide range of marine life including triggerfish. You may be lucky to spot blues and sperms (whale) too at this spot.

After dives, you can chill in the afternoon with some beach games such as surfing. You may explore Weligama, shop, relax at the beach, or grab a board and jump in for a free surf. There are optional adventures for you to do in the afternoons if you don’t feel like surfing again.

• Basic yoga class starts at 17:30
• Discover adventure night dive starts at 19:30 till 20:30

You will have your dinner on the beach. You can have your rest or go to enjoy the DJ music in the night as per your choice.

Day 6: Beginner surf lesson and sunset yoga class

You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at My Surf Camp Surf School on the beach for almost two hours. You can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.

You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, go snorkeling, or you're free to practice surfing in the afternoon. You can go watch the evening sunset on the beach and do yoga with a yoga teacher till the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy a barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.

Day 7: Surf lesson - sunset yoga

Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily as you wish). This will be day five of your surfing career, so slap on the sunscreen, take your theory and practical lesson at the theater (the theory is every day and can be before or after the surf session), jump in a tuk-tuk, and head to the surf school for either a lesson or guided surf. The afternoon is yours for the taking.

You may explore Weligama, shop, relax at the beach, or grab a board and jump in for a free surf. They will have recommended optional adventures for you to do in the afternoons if you don’t feel like surfing again.

At the end of the day, head back to camp, enjoy your free yoga session at sunset. They will show and teach you how to make Sri Lankan food by yourself such as rice and curry with coconut and coconut milk too. Enjoy your own dinner and end the day with some well-deserved beers and as you wish.

Day 8: Weligama - surfing - tour end

After your breakfast, you will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at the campsite and be provided with surfboards for free surfing. You will have a traditional Sri Lankan breakfast with local foods.

After all the lessons are finished, hopefully you will be able to catch your own dive/surf at your own dive/surf spot. Check out is by 11:00 a.m. Grab some photos to show off to your friends. Make sure you’ve got everyone on Facebook and Instagram and say goodbye to your dive camp family. They miss you already.

• 5 discover dives and 1 night dive
• 3 surf lessons or surf guiding (1.5 - 2 hours in the water)
• 3 free yoga session at the ocean view yoga rooftop and on the beach
• Unlimited surf theory lessons
• Galle Dutch Fort tour
• Tuk-tuk surf tours
• 1 day Sri Lankan cookery class
• 7 nights accommodation
• Daily breakfast
• 1 dinner Sri Lankan rice and curry
• Free coffee, tea, and king coconut every day
• Free filtered water top-ups
• Board rental and transfers to the beach of the day
• Free use of beginner surfboards outside of lesson times
• Airport pickup
• Small group sizes (between 1 - 2 students per instructor/guide)
• Professional local internationally qualified instructors
• Professional surf photographer joining you with some lessons
• Free use of skateboards
• Yoga mat every day

Guided

• A reservation requires a deposit of 24% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.