Oinan Surf Lodge: Wave And Beach

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Wave And Beach

Oinan Surf Lodge is located at the traditional village at Tuapejat called Mapad Degat Village.And there are beautiful and clean beach near by the lodge.From the beach, you can see the most popular spot in the mentawais The Telescope wave, just a few minutes boat ride from the beach.And the wave surrounding the beach beside the telescope is Iceland, Twiggiest, Scarecrows, Suicide, Ariks, Tikus, Ombak Tidur, Ulars, HT's and more other secret spots with a standard class.

Theres some wave and beach surrounding the lodge

Mape of the spots arround Sipora

The Telescope

Icelands

Scarecrows

HT's

The Beach of Padegat

View from the hill in front of the Lodge looking towards the Telescope surf spot

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About Mentawai

Mentawai Islands is a district in West Sumatra Province located at a distance of 150 km off the coast of Sumatra Island. The total area of Mentawai District is 601 km ² area, inhibited by 64,235 people, mostly indigenous people. Mentawai Islands consists of 213 islands with 4 main islands of Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai. The capital of Mentawai is at the Tua Pejat.

Mentawai Islands have a coastline of 758 km. The waves at Mentawai Islands is the best for surfing. Mentawai Islands potential was discovered in the mid 90's when some surfers from Australia came to visit and saw the great waves that they never thought was in Mentawai. The surfer eventually broadcast their findings and some of them even built several beach resorts to serve foreign tourists who want to surf in the Mentawai.

The geographical position of the Mentawai Islands is off the coast of West Sumatra and has distinct benefits for tourism development of extreme sports. Located directly facing the open oceans, the Mentawai Islands is guaranteed with consistent waves all year round. Time between April to August which is summer holidays in Europe is the best time for surfing in Mentawai. In that season, Mentawai waves can reach six feet tall and this is what surfers really want. Mentawai Islands has 400 surfing spots, 23 of them has international standard waves. The surfing spots are around Nyang-Nyang, Coral Bajat, Karoniki, Pananggelat and Mainuk (Pulau Siberut), Katiet Basua (Sipoira Island) and North Pagai (Sikakap Island).

The recognition given by the surfers aorund the world could be seen by the amount of surfing events held in these islands. Every year in August, we could attend the world surfing championship. With this event, thousands of tourist especially surfing enthusiasts come to Mentawai from all around the world. Each tourist spends an average of U.S. $ 2500 for a uncomparable surfing experience in the Mentawai.