Overview of the Lombok: Located just east
of Bali, Lombok is often compared to bali and sometimes called
the next Bali, and even though tourism is taking over
at a
fast pace, with new hotels, villas and an international airport
set to open, Lombok is still a much different place the landscape
is much different and the people and culture have a unique
charm of there own.
Waves: Apart from being home to one of
the best left's in the world Desert pt, Lombok also has a host
of other waves, although generally these waves aren't as high
quality as neighboring islands Bali or Sumbawa, there is a
good variety of waves lefts and rights that are perfect for
all surfers
from
beginners
up, with most waves being more suited to surfers of average
ability than many other areas of Indonesia.
Crowd wise: Like
other areas Lombok can get crowded although generally the
vibe is much more mellow than other
Islands as there
is normally less surfers of more advanced ability and more,
older cruisers and average joe surfers, grupuk is also popular
with Japanese surfers.
Lombok surf
spots: Description
and video's
Desert Point- One of the worlds best lefts,
Desert point is a barrel from start to finish that peels
perfectly at break neck speed, a goofy footers dream, as
you would expect breaks over shallow reef, definitely only
for
experienced
surfers, needs solid swell to get going a can be fickle.
Grupuk
bay- Grupuk bay has a number of
surf spots suitable from beginners to average surfers, all
the waves are easy fairly mellow but fun waves, slowly peeling
over a sea grass or flat reef bottom, waves include
outside rights,
inside rights and don dons a left and right, kiddies is
a beginners right.
Ekas bay- Two lefts break in this bay outside
and inside, outside lefts can offer long waves with various
section's and some punch, while the inside right and left
are generally, slow fat waves suited to long board riders
and
less advanced surfers.
Gili
islands- These small Islands are renowned for
there back backer party scene, magic mushrooms and great
diving,
both
gili
air
and gili trawangan have nice rights but they require
huge
swells
from the
right
direction to
push down the straight, extremely fickle, if you
get to surf here consider yourself very lucky.
Other
waves- lombok has plenty of bays with fun left
and rights, surf spots include, Sengigi, Blongas, Mawi,
Muwun, Air guling, A,an,
Seger and more.
Departing from Bali, many areas of lombok
are included on a nusa lembongan, lombok,
west sumbawa boat trip,
with west sumbawa being the final destination before the
return
to
bali, these are normally 7 night trips on indonesian wooden
outrigger style boat's, and have been running since around
the late 80's early 90's possibly the first area in the world
where commercial surf charters started operating?
Dreamweaver boat charters- Also
surfs all the South lombok breaks, 80ft wooden
indonesian motor boat, max guest, $950-$1100 pp 7 night
tripswww.dreamweaver-surf.com
Indo ocean surf adventures-can surf south
lombok breaks, various packages, including land/boat options,
min 8 guest max guest 12,, $850-$950 pp 7 nights(2-4 day trips
can be arranged) www.indoceansurfcharters.com
A few charter boats include the Sumbawa area as part of there
trip, they may also visit, lombok, however normally there main
focus is the areas of Sumba and Savu and Rote.
Mahalo 3 Indonesian explorations- 46ft power
catamaran,cruising speed 15 knots, max 8 guestwww.mahalo3indo.com
Moana boat charter-Surfing,
Diving Charters 30m traditional pinisi schooner, cruising
speed 8 knots, max
10 guest www.moanacruising.com
Sri noa noa- charter boat from bali to rote,
46ft twin masted schooner, cruise speed 7 knots, max 7 guest,
10-14 day trips from $165+pp pd www.cruisebali.com
Sama sama boat charters- do trips to various
locations around Indo including rote www.boattrip.at/samasama
The lambo- Does charters throughout indonesia,
run by indo legend, jim banks,74 ft 2009 classic indonesian
built phinisi boat, cruising speed?, max guest 8, $2795 11
nights, www.indo-odyssey.com
Quest 1- Does charters throughout Indonesia,
boat used in rip curls tip to tip, 21 meter 1991 hong kong
built, modern grp constructed motor vessel, cruising speed
?, max guest
8, $4,167-$5000 13 nights www.neptune-charter.com
Other charter boats that do
various charters:
Bulan purnama- private charters, surf, dive
tour, quality classic indonesian built phinisi boat, www.bulan-purnama.com
Other charter boats include the moggy, anne judith 2, and
Paus, however we only provide links to charters web sites and
not
travel agents web sites.
