Bapa Rato holds the blade to the chicken’s throat. Moonlight glimmers on the steel. The grandparents, parents and children on the bamboo veranda of the rumah adat – a traditional Sumbanese home with ...

Donnie Eichar. The story of Nihi Sumba began in 1988, when an American surfer named Claude Graves and his wife, Petra, came to the island in search of uncrowded surf.

Sumba, roughly the size of Hawaii's Big Island, is an arid, rocky place east of Bali. Inhabited by the indigenous Marapu ...

It’s this wave, named after the Australian surfer Mark Occhilupo, that gave life to the award-winning Nihi Sumba when it was discovered by Claude and Petra Graves in the late 1980s during a ...

Nihiwatu Surf Resort, Sumba, Indonesia (Alexandre Ribeiro dos Santos) You’ll come for the private heavy left-hand reef break, but you’ll stay for Nihiwatu’s high-end villas—you can sleep ...

The perfect sand and surf can be found on one of Indonesia's more remote islands.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We arrive into Sumba, known as the lost world island, from Bali. It's about as far removed from the overcrowded, densely populated ...

The surf at Nihi Sumba. Nihi Sumba. The five-day Sumba Sea Horse Equine Experience will draw on the synergy between humans and horses to afford a transformative journey of healing and self-discovery.

Guide to the best surf conditions for Racetrack - Sumba including swell direction, wind, and tide, plus travel details like best season, water quality and parking.

Two things draw outsiders to Sumba: its surf and its culture. Nihiwatu (the name means “mortar stone” in a Bahasa dialect) is an effort to use one to preserve the other. This string of beachside ...

A LUXURY resort tucked away on a remote island in Indonesia has just been named the world’s best.