A luxury for surfers in the Indonesian mazeLocated in Southeast Asia, in the archipelago of Sunda (Indonesia), Sumbawa is an island about 250 km long by 80 wide and an unknown for many surfers, more accustomed to approaching waves of the Bukit peninsula, in Bali, in the Mentawai archipelago or in Java, where the legendary wave of G-Land.
In Indonesia, with the Indian Ocean at his feet, there are thousands of surf surfeables and half a dozen of the best are in Sumbawa. But the communication channels are not simple in this country and are sometimes needed one or two-day journey to reach the place they want. The waves break mostly in places outside the tours, although some ten years ago from small lodgings and restaurants han ido emerging where waves break. Do not meet any Western standard, there are cockroaches, moisture and becomes very heavy menu just as fruit, rice and fish ... but they are wonderful places. There are no luxuries in Indonesia because they are impossible in many places, but mainly because the luxury that is looking for a surfer in the water.
In Sumbawa there are two major areas of waves. . The region Taliwang-Jereweh, on the west coast, with surf as Yo-Yo´s, Super Suck y Scar Ref. And reef Lakey, in the southeast coast, with two waves of exceptional quality as Lakey Peak and Lakey Pipe. The landscape in almost all of them is similar; coast, the lagoon and barrier reef. The coast, unlike other parts of Indonesia, lacks dense forests and recalls a more equatorial climate with low forest and low. Malaria is a problem, and also snakes. The lagoon is life, because that is a coral reef lagoon, a huge swimming pool open to the ocean full of life. And the outer reef, the fossilized coral barrier that climbs from the depths, is the spot where the luminous object of desire of surfers, the wave, just its route.
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