Overview of the Nusa Lembongan: From Bali,
Lembongan is the perfect next step, although it has changed
a lot over
the years, its still a great little
tropical island a great place to take your wife/girlfriend/partner
or family but an equally great place to head over with your
mates to get away from the kuta party seen, it's not a very
big island with no cars with the economy based around tourism
and seaweed farming.
Nearby Island Nusa penida, doesn't have any waves with cliffs
and deep rocky shoreline, but it does have good diving and
is worth a trip around to snorkel spots like the wall.
Waves: Although there's limited surf spots
the waves on Lembongan can be great value especially for surfers
new to surfing coral reefs, Shipwrecks in particular is a great
spot for average surfers to gain confidence,if you turn up
and it looks tiny or flat don't worry the area is very tidal
dependent, with swell increasing dramatically from
low
to high.
Crowd
wise: Due to being so close to Bali and with visiting
boats charters, Lembongan can go from packed out one day
to empty the next.
West Nusa Lembongan
surf spots: Description
and video's
Ship wrecks- The most consistent wave on
the island, shipwrecks is good fun right that just about anyone
can have fun on, throwing up all kinds of sections from
whackable walls to a few pits and everything in between.
Razzors- Across the channel a fast left
sometimes runs off, rarely surfed it's a wave that looks
better than it is as it speeds up way to fast and is rarely
makeable.
No mans- Again rarely surfed sometimes
rights run off towards Lacerations but there shifty and often
break on dry reef.
Lacerations- Although Lacerations needs
a solid swell to start breaking, when on this is a world
class little right with a nice shaped barrel from start to
finish, only shame is how crowded it gets.
Playgrounds- Is the most mellow option
of the area and the name describes it well, a right and left
peak, the lefts are the longer more surfed wave, peeling
with good shape, the rights are shorter but a bit more punchy,
this spot is perfect for more average surfers older surfers
and never gets very big, although it is still capable of
giving the odd reef cut if you kiss the bottom.
Ceningan Island- Located on Ceningan island
behind Lembongan a left peels of the side of the islands
reef, not the best left around, but picks up more swell than
other spots and lets you get wet when otherwise you might
go waveless.
Nusa Lembongan now has a huge
amount of accommodation options from budget to luxury it's
hard to list them all but here's most of them that have
web sites, for budget options generally just turning up
and shopping around is the go, below is some links.
Departing from Bali, Nusa Lembongan
is included on a 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 may include Nusa Lembongan as part of
there trip, they may also visit, lombok and Sumbawa 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 bats include the moggy, anne judith 2, and Paus,
however we only provide links to charters web sites and not
travel agents web sites.
