We started offering Dolphin and Snorkling tours. In case you are lucky the chances of seeing whales is also high. All our tours are organized with skilled boatsmen from the local fishing communities. Most of these persons are from the surrounding fishing communities and are perfect guides on the water, with their long years of experience but most of these persons are not trained tour guides. Which means they are authentic. We choose these boat owners to provide our tours since we want the local community to profit directly from tourism in the region. And in years to come they will master tour ..read more

Your hosts are all locals Family is the centre of every sustainable developement Tourism cannot ever be completely green or fully socially responsible, since each of us would negatively affect the environment in some way or the other. This is one reason why sustainable and responsible start-ups are necessary more than ever before. We wish to keep our natural, cultural and social environment in balance. And belo ..read more

When ever there is no wind, the best thing to do is get a book and find a nice and comfy place within our village and read. Shutdown, disconnect from the whole world. But in case you have done this already and now you don't know what to do, we can still help you. Below you can find a list of things which can be done, irrespective where you are staying in Kalpitiya and season. There are a list of day trips that we recommend as well. This list is apart from the day trips, what a person can do in Kalpitiya itself. Elephant tree visit - one of the oldest trees in the close vicinity of Kalpitiya ..read more

During the season December 2014 up to April 2015 we had number of tours which were organized by Ruuk Village. All our tours are organized with skilled boatsmen from the local fishing communities. Most of these persons are from the surrounding fishing communities and are perfect guides on the water, with their long years of experience but most of these persons are not trained tour guides. Which means they are authentic. We choose these boat owners to provide our tours since we want the local community to profit directly from tourism in the region. And in years to come they will master tour guid ..read more

We at Ruuk Village believe that when you are traveling, it's the road you take rather than the final destination that really matters. For this very reason, we offer a beautiful fully restored Volkswagen combi (T2) and a driver, so that on arrival, you can relax and enjoy your first Sri Lankan journey without a fuss. The distance from Sri Lanka's International airport (Colombo) to Kalpitiya is only 144km. But in Sri Lanka we measure distance in time, not kilometres.   With our airport transfer you will feel the surroundings that you pass by. You will smell the fresh air, the animals which cross ..read more

I have been wanting to cover this topic for few weeks / months but never had enough time to do so. Since I am not a writer by profession I will just write down my thoughts as they come to my mind. FEW FACTS ABOUT TOURISM IN SRI LANKA Tourists have always been traveling  to Sri Lanka and an increase in numbers were even seen back in 1968. One of the famous places where tourists flocked to, was Hikkaduwa back in the "flower power" days. Mt-Lavinia beach in the outskirts of Colombo has also been a famous place in the early 1970s. In 1983 when insurgency irrupted between central government forces ..read more

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne offers compelling evidence why Kalpitiya can be one of Sri Lanka's three whale watching hot spots. This is the story of his quest to verify a theory by British marine scientist Dr. Charles Anderson Text and Pics by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne As I walked to the beach an Indian Nightjar churred. I was sensing the world through my ears. I was in a world of darkness, like the one inhabited by the Sperm Whales. In their world, in the murky depths where no light penetrates, they will 'see' with sound, using echo-location. Waves gently lapped the shoreline in front of the b ..read more

“The Below Text is originally from” — http://www.ceylonroots.com/Here you can read the things what Ruuk village organizes for you, in case there is no wind or you are not a Kite surfer : Things to do in Kalpitiya, when there is no wind About Kalpitiya Sri Lanka Placed approximately 170 km of Colombo, the Kalpitiya region is one of the most beautiful coastal areas located in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Kalpitiya is a peninsular that seperates the Puttalam lagoon from the Indian Ocean, so you will see the blue ocean and its golden beaches on one side and a large lagoon wit ..read more

Kalpitiya is still developing and still has a long way to go in the following areas. Public electricity coverage is still limited Roads are still being constructed Public water supply is still to be fully implemented Ruuk Village had to find solutions to the above three obstacles, and we at Ruuk Village think that we have done pretty well finding solutions to cover the above. let me give a brief explanation as to, how we managed to find solutions to the above three obstacles. The official road to Ruuk Village has a stretch of about 900m which is soft sand and only a 4x4 wheel can master this ..read more