---
type: Video
title: "Day In The Life Of A Youtuber In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰"
description: A working day in Weligama — a 7:30am surf lesson, a smoothie bowl, a co-working space, a TV interview, and a $16 beach dinner at Mirissa under the best sunset of the trip.
tags: [sri-lanka, weligama, mirissa, surfing, digital-nomads, food, sunset]
timestamp: 2026-08-06T16:10:00Z
resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDx8Pvi3Xrc
video_id: nDx8Pvi3Xrc
upload_date: 2022-03-04
duration: 1379
---

# Day In The Life Of A Youtuber In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

A deliberate day-in-the-life from [Weligama](/places/weligama.md), and the most
informative video in the cluster about how Harry actually lives on the road:
surf at 7:30, breakfast, a co-working space, an interview, and dinner in
[Mirissa](/places/mirissa.md) with [Mac](/people/mac.md),
[Ali](/people/ali.md), [Luke](/people/luke-damant.md) and another creator.

*Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles. The surf instructor's
booking details are published in the video description, so under the bundle's
rule on advertising she is not named here.*

## Where he is living

Not the $7 hostel bed of the previous video — a room of his own at **3,000
rupees**, which he says he did not book himself and doesn't explain further.

- **Basic and fine by him**: spacious, fans rather than air conditioning, and
  wi-fi that isn't working well.
- **On a main road**, but his room is at the back, so the noise doesn't reach it.

## Surfing

- **Weligama is one of the best beginner beaches in the country**, per his
  instructor, for two reasons: the size of the waves, and that you don't have to
  go far out — which makes it safer.
- **3,500 rupees for the lesson**, planned at 90 minutes and run as 60 with a
  break.
- **He pays over the going rate on purpose.** You can get a cheaper lesson by
  asking someone on the beach, and his reasoning is that a lot of the cheaper
  instructors are not good, and this one clearly knew what she was talking about.
- **The lesson is mostly unlearning.** He has surfed before without ever being
  taught, and the session goes on correcting habits he had built — which is his
  own stated lesson: **bad habits are very hard to unlearn, so get taught before
  you have any.**
- **The technique, as coached**: don't lie too far forward or the nose digs in and
  you go over; arch your back; paddle; pop up on a three count.
- He gets up, briefly, and blames his balance. His plan is to swim and surf every
  morning instead of using a gym.

## The working day

- **A co-working space 100–200 m from the beach**, which he says exists because
  the town is full of digital nomads.
- **A television interview for a Pakistani channel**, fitted in later in the day.
- **Vegan and health food everywhere** — the surf-town default. Breakfast is a
  smoothie bowl (banana, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, coconut milk) and a
  cacao-caramel frappe. He says he could do this for a while but not permanently.
- **He is reading a book on how to start meditating**, having tried and failed
  several times.

## Mirissa, and dinner

**Five to ten minutes' drive** from Weligama, and busier: he says it is very
touristy and he has hardly seen a local. White sand, hanging lights in the
restaurants, palm trees, and fresh fish laid out at the front — tiger prawns,
butterfish, red mullet.

- **A prawn curry with rice, dal, vegetable sides and poppadom-like crackers**,
  which he rates and finds barely spicy.
- **About $16 a head**, which he calls a lot for Sri Lanka and then explains: this
  is a beach restaurant in a tourist town, the prices are what they are, and
  **you should not come to this stretch expecting local prices.**
- **He says outright they came for the setting rather than the food**, and the
  sunset is the thing he keeps filming — one of the best he has seen.

Two smaller notes: the drive over turns into tuk-tuks overtaking each other, and
he says on camera not to copy it; and he and Mac are both sunburnt because
neither of them has used any sun cream.

## Key moments

- `[00:30]` The room, at 3,000 rupees, and the wi-fi that isn't working.
- `[02:02]` Why Weligama suits beginners.
- `[02:35]` The lesson: nose position, arching the back, the three count.
- `[04:40]` Unlearning what he taught himself.
- `[05:11]` 3,500 rupees, and why he didn't take the cheaper option.
- `[05:42]` The co-working space, and the digital nomads.
- `[08:16]` The meditation book.
- `[09:19]` A TV interview for a Pakistani channel.
- `[12:42]` The overtaking, and his warning not to try it.
- `[14:49]` Mirissa beach and the fish stalls.
- `[19:31]` The prawn curry.
- `[22:09]` About $16 a head, and why the beach costs more.

## Extracted pages

- [Sri Lanka](/countries/sri-lanka.md)
- [Weligama](/places/weligama.md)
- [Mirissa](/places/mirissa.md)
- [Mac](/people/mac.md)
- [Ali](/people/ali.md)
- [Luke Damant](/people/luke-damant.md)