Each person travelling to Sri Lanka shall have a minimum of 30days travelling Visa. This can be aquired

either online ONLINE VISA

or on arrival Online visa can be paid using your credit card and once the application is filled and the payment is done, you should recieve an Email in the next 24hours with confirmation of your application and in most cases you will also have the online visa in a mail.

The cost of a VISA is 35US$

VISUM für Sri Lanka 30 Tage

+ Kalpitiya is 144Km away from the Sri Lankan International Airport.

+ During the day the traveling time can be a bit more than in the evenings or early mornings.

+ The best way to travel is to organize a pick up through your hotel.

+ Travelling time with a Taxi varies between 2,5hrs to 3,5Hrs.

+ We recommend you arrange your pickup with your accommodation, which saves your time to find the hotel location.

+ If you take a Taxi from the airport, most drivers would not know their way around in Kalpitiya.

+ You can also take the train or the bus to Kalpitiya, for this option you would have to plan a minium of 5 hours from the time you leave the airport. + For more details on how to use the bus/train to Kalpitiya read the following page. Google Map - How to get to Kalpitiya

NOTE: In case you have your kite luggage plus another backpack, we recommend you to take a Taxi to save you a load of time and also some nerves.

Airport Taxi | Flughafen Sri Lanka info

Airport | Flughafen Taxi nach kalpitiya

+ Sri Lanka is an all-year-round travel destination.

+ Sri Lanka has two monsoon fronts, but since there are mountains in the middle of the country, the other side is mostly protected from the monzoon.

+ This allows travelling all year round.

+ The most famous time for travelling is during December till March when the temperatures all over the coutnry becomes a bit mild than the rest of the year. But this is also the most busiest time to travel to Sri lanka, and in case you are a person looking for more space and quietness during your holidays, you need to avoid travelling to Sri lanka during December and January.Description text goes here

+ All known flight operators offers flights to Colombo international airport.

+ The travel time, depending on the transit. Total flying time is around 12 hours.

+ Known Operators with transit of min 120mins, sometimes it can also vary up to few hours. + Therefore it is important to double check the transit time you would have, before you make a confirmed ticket booking:

Emirates - transit in Dubai around 2 hours

Ethihard Airways - transit in Abhu-Dahbi around 2 hours

Qatar Airways - transit in Doha around 2hrs

Oman Airways - transit in Muscat minimum 3hrs

The only airlines flying directly to Colombo international airport is KLM and Sri lankan Airlines.

KLM - Direct flights from Amsterdam

Sri Lankan Airlines - Direct flights from London and Frankfurt

+ Sri Lankan rupees is the currency, which is around 200Rs to Euro and 160Rs to CHF

+ All known banks in Europe / Switzerland allows you to draw money in the ATM machines in Kalpitiya.

+ Some credit cards needs to be activated for Sri Lanka, do check this with your bank before you leave

+ Kalpitiya has 4 ATM machines – from 4 different banks

+ You can also pay with your credit card at most of the places in Sri Lanka

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+ Most places in Sri Lanka includes the a service charge to your final bill which shall be distributed among the team, which is mostly added to the base salary.

+ In case you wish to tip a person, depending on the amount of the bill you can offer 10% of the total ( is considered normal )

NOTE:

In case the bill is just a few hundred rupees, for example, 450Rs, it’s recommended not to leave a 10% tip at all, since some may take it as an insult.

A tip below 100Rs need not be given, especially at restaurants. At a local shop, the waiter might not mind having a tipp below 100Rs

You wouldn't give a 10cts tip in your home town either (smile)

+ We recommend everyone to use stronger sun cream, especially during the first few days. We recommend a 50% protection. Bring enough sun cream. since there are no shops in Kalpitiya to buy a quality sun cream

+ Pack a water-sport hat

+ In case you are one of those unlucky kiters, who steps on most of the sharp things, pack your neoprene shoes

+ Maybe a mosquito spray, but in Kalpitiya you can also buy “citronella Oil”, remember to apply this every day after you have shower, specially the legs and the arms.

+ Maybe for the kiters with sensitive skin, long arm UV shirt

+ For the ladies, do pack a pair of shorts ( can also be hot pants/boat shorts). Kalpitiya is still developing and there are enough fishermen who have not seen a female in a two piece swim suite. As a sign of respect, this is a good thing to take note of.

+ Take some wound cleaning disinfection fluid. The first aid BOX at Ruuk Village includes a disinfection fluid too.

+ Sri Lanka’s biggest national park is only an hour away by boat/jeep, you can get our team to organize you a safari trip. NOTE: Don’t except to see animals like in an African safari tour. But you can see Elephants and with a bit of Luck also the leopards. But experts in wild life say that Sri Lanka has a higher density of wild life concentrated on a tiny area. Some say it is 3 times higher than in Brazil for example.

+ Visit the Buddhist Temple on a rock - Anamaduwa

+ Visit the “Elephant Tree” which is around 700 years old.

+ Collect mussels and get the kitchen team to prepare them for dinner

+ Visit the Oyster farm 6 buy fresh oysters

+ Learn how to make virgin coconut oil from our own coconuts

+ Learn how to prepare curry and also how we make our own curry pastes

+ Play a round of Petanque or Volleyball

+ Learn how to make Kottu-Rotti in the evenings

+ Play darts

+ Collect seashells, collect old wood pieces and paint them to take them home with you

+ Or ask our kitchen ladies to show you how to prepare a coconut leaf for roofing.

+ Take our SUP and discover the lagoon

+ Take the bicycles and discover the surroundings

+ Yes you can, right away at the airport, when you come through the customs Or also in Kalpitiya at the jewelry shop

+ Don’t exchange money in your local bank, since the exchange rate is really not good.

+ In case you plan to go traveling after kiting in Kalpitiya, then you can also use

your credit card or your Maestro card to draw money. NOTE: There are certain cards that do not work. You need to cross check with your bank before.

+ Drinking water is available in 20L water spenders

+ We have banned the use of plastic straws and one-way plastic bottles, kindly refrain from purchasing plastic bottles in the town centre

+ To reduce plastic waste, we recommend you bring your sports drinking bottle with you, we also have few bottles what you can borrow

+ We request all guests to help us save water. Kalpitiya is in the dry-zone and Ruuk Village is not connected to the public water system. Ruuk Village pumps the water from a deep-well

+ Most of the known credit cards are accpeted in most of the shops and accomadation

+ Most places apply a 3% transaction cost to your final bill ( Payment gateway cahrges / 3rd party charges)

+ paypal paymanetns are accepted as a prepayment method only ( advnace payment )

+ Any Paypal cahrges which occurs, shall be carried by the payee.

+ We recommend you to talk to your doctor, and get his oppinion on this topic

+ Sri Lank is open to all who have got their Vaccines + Booster

+ All employees at Ruuk Village have got their Vaccines + Booster.

+ To complement the COVID Guidelines of WHO, at Ruuk Village we guarantee a minimum number of guests at any given time.

+ Ruuk Village avoids having large gatehring within the resort.

+ Kalpitiya is on the border to the Dry-Zone of Sri Lanka

+ Which means, in Kalpitiya one doesnt need to have Hot-Water for showers, the Sun heats up the water enough

+ During the months of December / January the evening tempratures are cooler than the rest of the year

+ During December & January, we normally recommend to have a shower before the sunset

+ All wooden Cabans are built to maximize the Wind to ventilate

+ Ruuk Village is an Off-the-GRID project

+ Ruuk VIllage harvests its own Electricity using a Solar Farm of 6KW.

+ Ruuk Village stores the Solar energy in a Battery-Bank.

+ Therefore we are unable to offer Air-Condition in our Wooden Cabanas.

+ On request we provide Ventilators

+ We recommend you to take a hotel/hostel room close to the airport and get yourself picked up next day

+ In case you still wish to travel another 3 hours by taxi ( after a late-night flight) then we can make arrangements to pick you up. Kindly mention this during the booking process.

+ Our check-is between 14:00Hrs till 22:00Hrs. After this, a late-night fee is added to your final bill.

+ In case you are a kiter who goes to places few times a year, we recommednd you to have either the VDWS tool Box or the "Swiss Kitegenossen insurance

+ If you are renting maerial from Ruuk Village, we could also offer you an insurance to cover damge to material with out a "deductible" amount. 10€ per each covered day. Covers ONLY kitematerial which are not purposely damaged.

+ VDWS Tool Box Link

+ Swiss Kitegenossen Insurance

+ Sri Lanka offer one of the best 4G ( Broad band Networks ) in South Asia.

+ Sri lanka was one of the first coutries to offer 3G to its communication networks. + This means in Sri Lanka, irrespective where you are, the Data coverage is pretty good. + Most places offer Free WiFi. In case you wish to be independent, we recommend you to get a Prepaid SIM at the airport.

+ The opertors we recommend are:

Dialog Data

Mobitel Data

NOTE: Make sure your Mobile/smartphone is not SIM-locked, check this with your network operator. Or just take a SIM ( should be a different operator than yours ) of your friend and replace it in your mobile, if your mobile can connect to the particular mobile Network then you are read to go.

Electricity current is 220 – 240 Volt AV, you don’t need to take extra adaptors, you can ask for an adaptor at check-in