How the Spice Trail Good Life Goes Beyond Surf, from In-Resort Fitness, Spa Therapy, Great Entertainment to Damn Good Food You know those videos where people sum up their holidays in Ahangama or Arugam Bay, where they just wake up, roll into surf, score waves, drink a coconut, watch the sunset and call it a perfect day? There are eighteen hours missing from those videos. And what you do in those eighteen hours when you’re not surfing, or never cared to surf, is just as impor

Getting to know a destination is not a simple Google search or a single-track operation like going just where the guidebook says. A destination, especially one with its own social, natural and historical depth like the East Coast of Sri Lanka, has a web of places, relationships, people, and natural dynamics. Getting actually to know that destination means engaging with this network firsthand. The best parts of the East Coast rarely show up on travel spreads or influencer feed

Someone wise once said that indecision is the worst form of mental f*ckery, and we agree. Nothing kills a vacation like sitting around trying to figure out a plan or bickering about what to do next. Knowing this, we designed the Spice Trail experience as the ultimate flow state, with easy entry points to holiday life and the pleasures that people love every day. Crowd favourites and coastal classics were deliberately woven in with fresh twists to design what we call the ‘Spic

(Then all you have to survive is that group chat for the trip.) If you've ever tried to coordinate a group holiday with your family or friends, 90% of energy goes into reconciling temperaments and at least three personal scheduling crises, leaving little to no headspace for the actual prep it takes. So, we made this guide, thinking you shouldn't have to miss the prep that matters, while you try to line up everything from kids' school break and friends' off days, to your broth

Yes, the average guest in a surf town walks around with salty hair, lives in their swimmers, spends most of their waking hours in the water, and the rest of it scanning the waves, often barefoot. What that should not mean is that they’re happy to tolerate subpar hospitality; bad beds, meh food, and rooms that haven’t been designed for proper rest. Being low-maintenance as a person doesn’t mean lowering your standards as a guest. Sure, people come for the waves. They also com

What makes a place meaningful is not its walls or fixtures. It’s how people feel inside it. If the people in a space feel seen, heard, considered, and understood, then that space becomes a kind of belonging. And that’s the only kind of hospitality we care about.

The South Coast rhythm is one of those things that’s easier to experience than to explain. Maybe it’s the insane sunsets that work like scheduled show-stoppers for each day. Maybe it’s the long-standing work-nap-work-nap local rhythm, born from generations of fishing and farming. Or it has to do with that discovery of a glitch in the matrix where Sri Lanka’s South Coast has the lowest gravitational pull on Earth…maybe it’s all those things. We don’t really know why, but we do

The south and east coasts of Sri Lanka may share the same island, but they couldn’t feel more different. That’s the fun of it.

Surfing is tough on the body—there’s no sugarcoating it. We get that, which is why we introduced Spa Therapy at the Spice Trail.

If you’re serious about levelling up your surf game, Surf Training Week at the Spice Trail is where it happens. This is not your typical...

The Spice Trail guide to making the most of your journey East. The journey from Colombo to Arugam Bay is one of the best ways to...

The awesomeness of Sri Lanka’s south coast is not news to anyone who set foot on the island. Its many surf breaks, spectacular bays and...

At the heart of the Spice Trail is food, surf, family, and again, food. What we eat is so, so important to us. We know that fresh food...

Some days, you get all the waves with no one else on the break. Some days, you catch a few good ones. But some days, you get none. The...

With more travel bans being issued for Sri Lanka, some people have asked us what it’s really like to visit; some have also asked why the...

Anyone visiting the Ulla village where we’re based will come across an iconic character of Arugam Bay—the fisherman. We work closely with...

New spaces always excite us. We love how their open potential complements our drive to keep creating, experimenting and innovating....

For Garrath Glass, shaping surfboards is more than work or even art—it’s a calling. Garrath spent many years in Sri Lanka crafting fantastic

The rush of discovery, the fulfillment; the stories, the flavours and the little doses of culture; the sense of community; the fun… we...