Sri Lanka is a TOP kitesurf / kiteboard destination, no joke! It's really amazing. The wind has been blowing 24hrs 7 days/week for the last month and it won't stop for the next few months. I'm talking about steady strong winds. It's a perfect place if you're looking for your next kite trip destination. I'm staying at a kitecamp called Kitekuda (good rates and the best food I've had in this country so far, and I've traveled a lot here already) and they have a very nice flat water lagoon right next to the ocean. So you can kiteboard and Kitesurf as you please. It isn't crowded at all, I kite on the ocean ALONE all the time. That's why I'm writing here, so more kiters can come enjoy this place. Sri Lanka is a cheap country with friendly people and good food. The weather is very warm, so forget your wetsuit and make sure you bring sunscreen. Believe me, you won't regret it!
Check out their Facebook page www.facebook.com/Kitekuda , website www.srilankakiteschool.com or Kitekuda on Instagram

Sounds good.

1. Are there any wave spots?

2. What other-than-kiting options are there? eg: Bars

Oh mighty Fellipe of 2 post fame.

There's plenty waves...and no crowd! Right in front of the camp. You can kite the flat water lagoon and cross the sandbar to catch some waves without landing your kite. Or you can pump your kite at the camp and go kitesurf. the ocean a 5 minute walk from the camp.
Kitekuda kitecamp is isolated. So, no bars, no night life, no city, no much around. Just Kite kite kite. Ocean and flat water lagoon. Dowinders. Kitesafaris. the wind blows 24hrs.
Besides kiteboard and kitesurf there many other activities to do while here in Sri Lanka. There's great surf on the south and east side of the island (we are on the Northwest)...look up Arugam Bay. It's a typical surf village. Over there you will find lots of tourists, bars and restaurants, social life. On the moutains, on the central part of the island will find very nice landscaping with tea plantations and tea factory. This place is so beautiful that you will forget that you are in Asia...look up Nuwara Eliya. There are hikes and waterfalls and a wide range of wild life in Sri Lanka...you can go on a safari to see wild animals like elephants, tigers, buffalos etc. You can go dive/swim with sharks. Snorkel. Fishing. there's A LOT to do here. Research online what Sri Lanka has to offer as a tourist destination. It'a beautiful, safe and cheap country to travel. And if you come to kite, come to Kitekuda now so we can go kite! I'm alone here at the moment ;)

With that wind pumping 24 hours a day and with sooooo much to do in Sri Lanka you how could you possibly have the time to spruik on Seabreeze.

man, sometimes it a pretty rough crowd here. Spot looks interesting and extremely affordable for the financially challenged.

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dafish said..
man, sometimes it a pretty rough crowd here. Spot looks interesting and extremely affordable for the financially challenged.

I think its the blatant pimping not the spot that deserves the rough crowd.. Fellipe from the United States feels so lonely in Sri Lanka that he has to join an Australian Forum just to get some mates to go kiting with

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tgcp said..

dafish said..
man, sometimes it a pretty rough crowd here. Spot looks interesting and extremely affordable for the financially challenged.

I think its the blatant pimping not the spot that deserves the rough crowd.. Fellipe from the United States feels so lonely in Sri Lanka that he has to join an Australian Forum just to get some mates to go kiting with

But dude,

you pimp your Exmouth Kite Centre all the time.

I mean, I don't really care what you do on this forum. lol.

I enjoy reading about all the great kiting spots.

Well...I can only kite and explore so much at a time...I'm here for awhile...1 month and 2 more to go. I see an empty kitecamp...why not give other kiters the same opportunity to see and enjoy a great new location? I see us, kiters, as a big and united family. Regardless of race, nationality, residency or citizenship.
Sad to see that some people already lost the stoke!

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Sad to see that some people already lost the stoke!

A forum like this gets continual 1st post pimps - so if you haven't joined "the stoke" and built up even a small number of genuine contributions to "the stoke" then you don't get to advertise without being called on it. Them's the rules.

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waveslave said..

tgcp said..

dafish said..
man, sometimes it a pretty rough crowd here. Spot looks interesting and extremely affordable for the financially challenged.

I think its the blatant pimping not the spot that deserves the rough crowd.. Fellipe from the United States feels so lonely in Sri Lanka that he has to join an Australian Forum just to get some mates to go kiting with

But dude,

you pimp your Exmouth Kite Centre all the time.

I mean, I don't really care what you do on this forum. lol.

I enjoy reading about all the great kiting spots.

fair call, but I made sure that I built up a few posts first before pimping , theres definitely less obvious ways of doing it and this one is blatant.

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Fellipe said..
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Sad to see that some people already lost the stoke!

A forum like this gets continual 1st post pimps - so if you haven't joined "the stoke" and built up even a small number of genuine contributions to "the stoke" then you don't get to advertise without being called on it. Them's the rules.

Really? Coz I just read seabreeze's TOC and couldn't find them rules. Unless these are unwritten rules made up by forum posters and not administrators?

I for one, welcome a bit of kite vacation location pimping here and there. It's not like you get exposed to advertising by kite camp operators anywhere else on the internet. I wouldn't know about half of the exotic destinations available if it weren't for the odd pimp in the forums. It makes for better reading than at least half of the other crap that gets posted in the general forum.

No doubt I'll also be accused of pimping, but I would also highly recommend Kitekuda as a pure kiting destination. I've been there twice as a paying customer & have had a great time. The wind is consistent other than couple of light days once per month. The water is warm, the flat water location is perfect and there is no end to the progression that can be made.

I can't speak for the waves, I've only ever kited in the lagoons as a try hard twin tip boots rider.

The spot is pretty isolasted so I wouldn't recommend taking non-kitesurfing partners, but not so isolated as to not have wi-fi so that you can monitor any pimping on this site between sessions.

Oh well...Sri Lanka is a great kite destination and here I am enjoying all of this

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Phoney said..

kiteboy dave said..

Fellipe said..
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Sad to see that some people already lost the stoke!

A forum like this gets continual 1st post pimps - so if you haven't joined "the stoke" and built up even a small number of genuine contributions to "the stoke" then you don't get to advertise without being called on it. Them's the rules.

Really? Coz I just read seabreeze's TOC and couldn't find them rules. Unless these are unwritten rules made up by forum posters and not administrators?

I for one, welcome a bit of kite vacation location pimping here and there. ..

No it's purely unwritten rules made up by idiot forum posters. Admins just delete the 'buy fake passport' crap and leave these ones for us to argue over.

I also like kite vacation location pimping... but paradigm (for example)'s words are worth approximately 53 times the weight of a 1PP - because he's taken the time to be a real person first, not some random... It's not hard if you're serious about kiting to contribute first and pimp later..

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dafish said...
Extremely affordable for the financially challenged.

Haha that's got kemp written all over it. I'll go there next year for sure.

Im off to Sri Lanka this Sat. Cant wait. Wind forecast is low to mid 20s and temps around 30. wish i went a week earlier and missed the latest shocking weather here in Melbourne.

Got two new 2016 kites to fly too which will add to the awesomeness!

I went for 2 weeks in 2011 and stayed for 2 months. Livin cheap in the village. **** food, cheap beer, dingo ugly village chicks but the French dude Leo was still chopping them up. Pissed up roadtrips to the cricket in Kandi. Grouse spot, had a fat time. Kiteboys probably got an AVO on Santa!

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Well...I can only kite and explore so much at a time...I'm here for awhile...1 month and 2 more to go. I see an empty kitecamp...why not give other kiters the same opportunity to see and enjoy a great new location? I see us, kiters, as a big and united family. Regardless of race, nationality, residency or citizenship.
Sad to see that some people already lost the stoke!

the kite camps empty cause mikes a dick
your bored and lonely because if you so much as talk to a local girl (theres like 3 of them for a good 5 village radius) there family will beat her
your paying far to much money get a hold of rumesh or some of the local houseing touts and get a room that has 4 solid walls for 1k ruppee a night
how many human corpses have you found on the beach so far? my record was 2 adults 1 kid and about 20 odd dogs

but ive said it before and ill say it again if its windy in hell ill happily go to hell. sri lanka can be close sometimes. least there is wind there tho unlike half these other bloody "kitesurf locations" ive been to last several years. 7 bloody sessions for 3 months here going to start sacrificing the young and old for wind soon.

I'll do a proper write up of my Sri Lanka experience soon. The kiting is really good as indicated but that's about it.

Ive been to quite a few developing countries now but unfortunately this is the first trip that overall i havent enjoyed.

I recommend doing your homework before booking a ticket.

Hmmm. Interesting Fellipe.
what kite sizes and time of year are recommened?
I have 11,12 and 15mt sizes

Well back on topic of what's "stoke" and what's pimping, based on this vid
"our life in Sri lanka"
"a little bit of work a little bit of leisure"
there's laying around or exploring jungle with the girlfriend, and there's some kite tours - The only thing resembling the "work" he mentioned.
So I'm gonna go out on a limb and claim ole Phillipe is working at the kite school there.
No mention of that in his 1PP eh?

Im 95kg and a 9m has been my stable. Got the 12m out once.

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Well back on topic of what's "stoke" and what's pimping, based on this vid
"our life in Sri lanka"
"a little bit of work a little bit of leisure"
there's laying around or exploring jungle with the girlfriend, and there's some kite tours - The only thing resembling the "work" he mentioned.
So I'm gonna go out on a limb and claim ole Phillipe is working at the kite school there.
No mention of that in his 1PP eh?

You must have been traumatized by people promoting kite places... I DO NOT WORK FOR KITEKUDA, I stay here! My wife is a kitesurf instructor and she teaches at srilankakiteschool which is owned and operated by Kitekuda. I'm a freelance kitesurf photographer. So, PLEASE, go find something else to do. Stop wasting your time dude!
Anyway...what if I was? What's the F#$@%*& problem???

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Macster said..
I'll do a proper write up of my Sri Lanka experience soon. The kiting is really good as indicated but that's about it.

Ive been to quite a few developing countries now but unfortunately this is the first trip that overall i havent enjoyed.

I recommend doing your homework before booking a ticket.

Sorry to hear that you haven't enjoyed your trip...I'm having an awesome experience! So yeah, I agree that doing the homework really pays off at the end...

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Loftywinds said..
Hmmm. Interesting Fellipe.
what kite sizes and time of year are recommened?
I have 11,12 and 15mt sizes

The season is from May to September and you can bring whatever you have from 7 to 12 meters kites...most used are 8, 9 and 10.

How far is it to the wave spots?Are the easy to get to?