The northwest peninsula that has become the Indian Ocean’s premier kitesurfing destination and one of its finest locations for spinner dolphin encounters – enormous super-pods of hundreds and sometimes thousands of animals regularly encountered offshore in a setting of raw coastal beauty completely unlike the more developed resort areas of the south and west. Kalpitiya’s undeveloped peninsula character, its fishing village communities, and the extraordinary marine wildlife of its offshore waters make it one of Sri Lanka’s most genuinely frontier-feeling destinations.