A brilliant point break is only one of the sublime attractions of luxurious Indonesian resort Nihiwatu.
A ncient lore refers to the pristine Indonesian island of Sumba as the ‘Cowboy Island of the South East’, a place where fierce warriors believe in the spirits and live by the law of the land. Guided by the cycles of the moon, not much has changed since the dawn of time. Perched on the edge of wilderness, Nihiwatu was founded in the 1980s by Claude and Petra Graves as shacks surrounding ‘God’s Left,’ the world’s only private left-hand break. It was nirvana for surfers then, and even though the resort is five star now, cashed-up eco-purists and pros have come along for the ride (the exclusive wave is limited to 10 people at any one time). A spear-carrying butler staffs each villa (forget pastiche, this is the real thing), and I am paired with Johan who greets me with a mega-watt smile and conjures coconuts directly to my deck chair in the jaw-dropping Mendaka estate.
This story is from the August/September 2017 edition of Belle Magazine Australia.
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