Welcome to Lanka Land, where surfing has no end, where schedules are defined by desire, where adrenaline is aplenty. Our resident photographer, Lachlan Dempsey, and our surf coach, Oskar Albrektson, are quite the daring duo. Any spare moment to themselves is spent in the water or trekking through various parts of Sri Lanka on a
This is a guest blog post with words and photos by Alex Heil and our former Sunshinestories photographer, Chandler Borries. “I heard someone was chased by wild elephants and that the mountains are straight out of The Lord of the Rings!” Life on the Sri Lankan coast is just too easy! You slip into
Sri Lanka is the land of coconut honey, dried fish, and all things spicy. This little island has been slowly popping up on the travel scene after the civil war ended in 2009. More and more people are coming to find what a gem Sri Lanka is for all things tropical and surf related. If
Your Role As a kitchen manager or head chef at Sunshinestories, you would use your knowledge and experience of professional cooking to lead a team of staff and efficiently run two kitchens, one at Sunshinestories retreat and one at a new location we’ll be opening shortly. In this job you will need good leadership skills,
In April, the Sunshinestories family closed the retreat for a week and road tripped about four hours to Banyan Camp, a bush camp and retreat tucked away in the jungle right next to Udawalawe National Park and the beautiful lake Hambegamuwa. As soon as we arrived and dropped off our bags, we took off on an
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us to ask if we’re ok. Sri Lanka have been affected by heavy rains & floods the last week. We are lucky to not be affected by the floods here in the south. Sunshinestories is 200km from the affected areas, we have experienced heavy rains but
Recently the boys from Soda Lime were over for a visit, we got in the jeep, packed it with boards a bunch of cameras, a lot of stoked only to adventure around our neighbourhood and record this video. We surfed our brains out, ran through the bushes a million times to get the perfect footage and
Watch this little sweet edit by head coach Nick Holmgren and get inspired to come down and surf with us here on Sri Lanky Lank. We still have availability this spring! Book here. Follow Nicks Instagram for more surfy updates from paradise. Lanky Lank from SurfersTV on Vimeo.
The past few weeks we have been filming a lot with Soda Lime. It’s a swedish lifestyle video production company. They’ve been amazing and have really captured a bit of the Sri Lankan rhythm of life. Soon they will release the full film, can’t wait!! Sunshinestories short film – TEASER. from sunshinestories on Vimeo.
