“Adventure diving and safari”
4 Day Adventure Down South Diving Holiday in Kirinda and Yala, Sri Lanka
Kirinda, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Diving Adventure Sri Lanka
Welcome to Kirinda in down south Sri Lanka and explore endless underwater treasures and marine life! Kirinda is a coastal village located in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. It is both beautiful and attractive and popular with both foreign and local visitors.
Meet the instructors
Ranga & Sahan
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Highlights
- Bottles diving in 4 dive sites in Kirinda
- Yala National Park safari and Kirinda Historical Temple tour
- Free use of diving equipment
- Professional dive photographer
- 3 nights accommodation
- Tasty breakfasts
- Transfer from the airport
Skill level
- Intermediate
- Advanced
2 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Spanish
Airport transfer included:
Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer included:
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
11:00
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Café
- Concierge desk
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Honesty bar
- Lobby
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- ATM / banking
- Bicycle rental
- Board rental
- Car rental
- Conference room
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
- Meeting room
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
During this diving holiday, you can choose to stay in a private room at Kirinda Beach Front Resort (two stars), The Campers Lodge Yala Luxury Camping (three stars), or Eco Safari Thissa (four stars).
Kirinda Beach Front Resort
- Beachfront
- Garden
- Pets are not allowed
- Water sports facilities (on site)
- Bikes available (free)
- Cycling
- Sri Lankan and Western foods
- Bottle of water
- Good coffee
- Free Wi-Fi is available in all areas and is free of charge
- Free private parking on site (reservation is not needed)
- Secured parking
- Shared lounge or TV area
- Private check-in or check-out
- Car hire
- Packed lunches
- Room service
- Designated smoking area
- Air-conditioning (additional charge)
- Family rooms
- Non-smoking rooms
The Campers Lodge Yala Luxury Camping
- Free Wi-Fi
- Family rooms
- Free parking
- Bar
- Outdoor fireplace
- Outdoor furniture
- Sun terrace
- Barbecue facilities (additional charge)
- Terrace
- Garden
- Pets are not allowed
- Live sports events (broadcast)
- Themed dinner nights (additional charge)
- Walking tours
- Badminton equipment
- Evening entertainment
- Entertainment staff
- Cycling
- Bicycle rental (additional charge)
- Fruits (additional charge)
- Bottle of water
- Wine or champagne (additional charge)
- Kid-friendly buffet
- Kid meals (additional charge)
- Special diet menus (on request)
- Breakfast in the room
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free private parking on site (reservation is not needed)
- Secured parking
- Wellness facilities
- Private check-in and check-out
- Tour desk
- Currency exchange
- Express check-in and check-out
- 24-hour front desk
- Indoor play area
- Books, DVDs, and music for children
- Board games or puzzles
- Babysitting or child services
- Daily housekeeping
- Trouser press
- Shoeshine
- Ironing service (additional charge)
- Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- Laundry (additional charge)
- Shuttle service
- Grocery deliveries (additional charge)
- Airport shuttle (additional charge)
- Shuttle service (additional charge)
- Designated smoking area
- Non-smoking throughout
- Car hire
- Packed lunches
- Bridal suite
- Family rooms
- Non-smoking rooms
- Newspapers (additional charge)
- Room service
Eco Safari four-star Hotel - Thissa
- Swimming pool
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free parking
- Spa and wellness center
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Terrace
- Garden
- Pets are not allowed
- Bottle of water
- Good coffee
- Free Wi-Fi in all areas
- Free public parking on site (reservation is not needed)
- Pool bar
- Spa and wellness center (additional charge)
- Sauna (additional charge)
- Luggage storage
- Currency exchange
- 24-hour front desk
- Trouser press (additional charge)
- Ironing service (additional charge)
- Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- Laundry (additional charge)
- Fax or photocopying (additional charge)
- Shuttle service
- Air conditioning
- Safety deposit box
- Non-smoking rooms
- Newspapers
- Room service
Program
Qualifications or requirements
- PADI Open Water certification
- PADI Discover Diver certification
- Age requirement: 14 years or older
- Time commitment: Approximately eight to 15 hours of course prerequisites
Daily itinerary
Day 1: Colombo Airport - Kirinda 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 be directly transferred to the Dive Camp in Mount Lavinia Colombo, Sri Lanka via E01 Express Highway. This day, the guides will be going to show you the city and beach around Mount Lavinia. You will check in and meet the team. There, you will enjoy seafood, barbecue, local foods, and Sri Lankan-style cocktails. Afterward, you can visit a beach or take a rest as you wish.
Day 2: Diving - Endless underwater treasures (two dives)
Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and Western foods changing daily as you wish. This will be your day two of your diving career. 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 vehicle, and head to the dive school for either a lesson or guided SLCG divers in Endless Under Water Treasure Around The Basses.
After dives, you can chill in the afternoon with some beach games and activities. You may explore Kirinda more, relax at the beach, or choose one of the optional adventures for you to do in the afternoons if you do not feel like getting tired again. You will have your dinner on the beach of the adventure dive campsites. You can have your rest or go to enjoy the DJ music as per your choice.
Day 3: Kirinda - Caves around the Basses or marine ecology - Yala National Park safari
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 lesson or professional dive guiding at the diving school near the beach for almost three hours. You can collect your basic equipment and start your practice. You will have your lunch after 12:00 p.m. At 2:00 p.m., you will start the safari.
Here, you will have the opportunity to see wild elephants, leopards, water buffalos, alligators, bears, deer, and various kinds of birds. You will have a jungle camp experience by going on a safari with the wildlife guide and team (transport: 4x4 off-road jeep). The safari will end at 7:00 p.m. Go back to the hotel and you will have your dinner on the beach of your adventure dive campsites. You can have your rest or go party as per your choice.
Day 4: Kirinda - Tour ends
You will have a traditional Sri Lankan breakfast with local foods. After that, all the lessons are finished and hopefully, you will have had an amazing marine life experience. Check-out is by 11:00 a.m. Grab some photos on your dive site to show off to your friends. Make sure you have got everyone on Facebook and say goodbye to your surf camp family. They miss you already.
Included excursions
- Yala National Park safari
- Kirinda Historical Temple tour
Instructors
Ranga Shrimal
Ranga Shrimal is a host, the founder, and managing director of Lankan Tour Hub (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to meet friends from all around the world and make them his good friends for a lifetime. He was born in Negombo in 1988. He has always liked to surf and live near the beach and nature. His home now is also located within the mountain range. There, he always finds peace through his meditation sessions. Ranga looks forward to welcoming you very much, and to talking and relaying the many things that he has learned in life, and at the same time learning too.
Sahan Damayantha
Sahan is a PADI Diving Instructor (License S407801). He was born in Weligama, a local Sri Lankan who knows all about the local scene and the diving instructing. He will make sure that everything is perfect for you to enjoy a great diving holiday in Sri Lanka. Currently, he is a diving instructor of a 5-star dive center in Weligama and your dive host as well as diving instructor since 2015. He loves to teach clients how to practice diving, offering great company at his place and an insight into my breathtaking culture.
Location
Sri Lanka is a great place to learn to dive with the PADI Open Water Divercourse. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Enriched Air Diver, PADI Deep Diver, and PADI Wreck Diver courses are popular for diving many of the sites and wrecks off the coastline of Sri Lanka. You can also become a PADI Divemaster or PADI Instructor from this island paradise. This dive camp will take place at the Kirinda Sri Lanka Coast Guard Diving Center in Kirinda, Sri Lanka.
The camp is located near the beach which will give you easy access to the surfing spots. It is also less crowded, giving you a hassle-free time to learn diving properly. As well as sunrise, the sunset is the most awesome experience to do. It is one of the best places to go dolphin watching during the whale season (November - April).
Kirinda
There is a rocky outcrop from which one can enjoy a magnificent view of this desolate coast with its long stretch of golden beach and sand dunes with the great blue ocean beyond. On a sunny day, the lighthouse on the Great Basses Reef appears like a needle in the far distance.
Kirinda beach and diving
Kirinda is an ideal place to experience scuba diving during the inter-monsoon period. The archaeologically important diving spots, caves, and the Long Basses reef with crystal clear water, vertical walls, shallow water soft corals, and also the long sandy beach give any recreational diver a mesmerizing inspiration to enjoy an unforgettable experience in the pristine waters of Kirinda.
Kirinda dive sites
The geographical and geological conditions of the area around the Great and Little Basses Reef resulted in many unknown sailors going down with their ships and belongings in these blue waters. Hence, there are many identified archaeologically important old shipwreck sites around the Basses site and there also exist many unknown sites waiting to be discovered.
Wreck sites around the Basses
This is a shallow site very close to the reef opposite the Silver Coin wreck. Mr. Peter Throckmorton and Dr. Arthur C. Clarke found this wreck of the early British period. According to history, a ship had docked at Port of Galle in its eastward passage to collect a shipment of soda bottles from a company by the name of "Clarek and Company" which supplies pointed-bottom soda bottles. The remnants of the mysterious bottle wreck lie on the land side of the Great Basses ridge.
This wreck is very badly deteriorated because of the shallow water and residual surge conditions. The wreck is almost integrated into a reef and the only well-defined objects are two large anchors. Only a very few bottles from its original cargo remain as most bottles have been taken away by treasure hunters. The two large anchors also face the danger of being removed by treasure hunters.
Caves around the Basses
The Basses Reef is the best place to go cave diving in Sri Lanka. The magnificent natural features like ravines, pillars, pinnacles, caves, and sand pockets surrounded by high wall corals and crevices created by the heavy currents and surge conditions throughout the year entice divers to tirelessly discover its wonders and surprises. Even during the annual season, this place tends to contain some current. However, if one wants to enjoy cave diving in Sri Lanka, this would be the ideal location to have a lifetime experience.
Marine ecology
This is the place to see varieties of fish like groupers, moray eels, lobsters, tuna, angelfish, rays, napoleons, coneys, red hind, snappers, parrot fish, and millions of other denizens of the ocean. While moving through these waters, you can see festoons of black corals and deep-water sea fans. Watch out for sea turtles at the Basses. Hawkbill turtles and green turtles are frequently observed here resting in the protection of a ledge.
Wreck sites conservation
- Site monitoring
- Updating and maintaining a registry wreck
- Collecting of wreck site data including photography, video, and physical source
- Conservation of artifacts if found necessary under the guidance of experts
- Safe rendering of unexplored explosives and other hazard
- Management and entry control to underwater wrecks
- Local Police and Archaeological Department will be informed that SLCG approval is required for any diving expedition in Basses reefs
- Foreign and local diving expeditions are allowed only under SLCG supervision to ensure no treasure-hunting
Coast Guard Diving Center takes action towards protecting underwater archaeologically valid dive sites and other wrecks around Basses Reef. These significant areas marked with buoys allow underwater photography only in limited areas.
Foreign and local recreational divers are allowed diving only under the supervision of SLCG divers to ensure no treasure hunting and vandalism.
Seasonal averages: 22 degrees Celcius or 72 degrees Fahrenheit in winter and 33 degrees Celcius or 93 degrees Fahrenheit in summer. West Coast diving is best from around October to May, and the East Coast is best from around May through to October.
Distances
- Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI), 55.4 kilometers - 1 hour 11 minutes via Tissamaharam Road
- Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB), 295.1 kilometers - 4 hours 33 minutes via Southern Expy/E01
Food
You will be served with daily breakfast included in the price. For the rest of the meals, you can have the best local food experience as well as the Western foods in the 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
- Whole food
- Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Night dives
- Surf and yoga classes
What's included
- 4 bottles diving in 4 dive sites in Kirinda
- Safari at Yala National Park
- Kirinda Historical Temple tour
- 3 nights accommodation
- 3 buffet breakfasts
- Coffee, tea, and king coconuts
- Airport pick-up
- Transport for the whole tour (4 days)
- Use of diving equipment
- Professional dive photographer joining you with some lessons
- High-speed Wi-Fi
What's not included
- Airport drop-off
- Flights
- Lunches and dinners for 4 days
- Massage and spa treatments
- Optional activities
How to get there
Recommended Airports
CMB
Bandaranaike International Airport
191 km
Transfer included
HRI
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
24 km
Transfer included
Airport: Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer included: Bandaranaike International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Airport transfer included: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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