|
| |
|
KUTA LEGIAN SEMINYAK |
| |
|
|
| |
The biggest, brashest, least traditional beach resort in Bali, the
KUTA-LEGIAN-SEMINYAK conurbation is just 10km southwest of Denpasar.
Packed with hundreds of hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs and shops, the
six-kilometre strip plays host to several hundred thousand visitors a
year and yet, for all its hustle, it remains a very good-humoured place,
almost completely unsleazy. The beach is quite possibly the most
beautiful in Bali, with its gentle curve of golden sand stretching for
8km, lashed by huge breakers. These waves make Kuta a great beach for
surfers, but less pleasant for swimming, with a strong undertow: always
swim between the red- and yellow-striped flags. Poppies 2 is the centre
of Kuta's surf scene, and the best place to buy boards or get them
repaired; you can also rent boards on the beach (about Rp25,000).
Monthly tide charts are compiled by Tubes bar on Poppies 2 and you can
learn to surf at the Cheyne Horan School of Surf (mobile tel
081/835-7690; US$55/day). Wanasari Wisata, inside the G-Land surf shop
at Jl Pantai Kuta 8b (tel 0361/755588,), organizes four-to-seven-day
surfing tours to the mega-waves off Sumbawa, East Java, West Java,
Lombok and West Timor (US$200 to US$425), and Bali Surfing (tel
0361/730184) does surfing packages to Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Nusa
Lembongan (US$325-750 inclusive).
|
| |
|
