Mentawai surf spots, break by break.

Right · ADV

Rifles

A machine-like right that runs for hundreds of metres and is widely rated one of the best on earth.

Left · ADV

Kandui

A hollow, mechanical left in the northern Playgrounds, often called the Mentawai answer to Teahupoo in miniature.

Right · ADV

Bank Vaults

A thick right-hander over a fast-rising reef in the Playgrounds, one of the heaviest barrels in the Mentawai and strictly for advanced surfers.

Left · ADV

E-Bay

Ebay

A fickle, world-class left in the Playgrounds that barrels from start to finish when the swell has enough west in it.

Right · INT

Burgerworld

A long, playful right-hand reef point in the Playgrounds that switches on when the heavier North Mentawai reefs go flat.

Right · INT

Nipussi

Nipussi Left

A consistent right-hand reef in the Playgrounds that stays clean on north winds and needs less swell than its heavier neighbours.

Left · INT/ADV

Hideaways

A world-class Playgrounds left that opens with a hollow ledge and runs into a long rippable wall, over reef that punishes greed.

Right · ADV

Lance's Right

Hollow Trees · HTs

A perfect, photogenic right-hand barrel and probably the most photographed wave in Indonesia.

Left · INT/ADV

Telescopes

Teles

A long, versatile left off Sipora that works across a huge range of sizes, and a favourite of ours.

Left and right · ALL LEVELS

Tikus

The uncrowded wave that breaks straight out front at Sunset Surf Villas, checkable from the deck.

Left · INT/ADV

Lance's Left

Lances Left

A long, consistent left that wraps down the reef at Katiet in three sections, from a shallow barrel up top to rippable walls on the inside.

Left · INT/ADV

Icelands

Iceland

A left-hand reef off north-west Sipora that swings from a mellow head-high wall to one of the heaviest big-wave barrels in the Mentawai.

Left · INT/ADV

Scarecrows

A long, underrated left off North Sipora that runs over 200 yards into the Curry Bowl, one of the central Mentawai's most consistent waves.

Left · EXPERT

Suicides

A fickle, fast barrelling left off north-west Sipora that stays empty because most crews take one look at it and keep going.

Right · INT/ADV

Ombak Tidur

Sleeping Waves

A sectiony right-hand reef off North Sipora that picks up swell on the smaller days and rarely carries a crowd.

Left · EXPERT

Doughnuts

Donuts

A fickle, expert-only left off North Sipora that barrels hard over shallow coral on the rare days it switches on.

Right · INT/ADV

Bintangs

Bintang

A short, dredging right across the channel from Lance's Left that turns on when the north wind ruins everything else in the bay.

Left · INT/ADV

Macaronis

Macas

The most famous left in the Mentawais, a machine-like wall widely called the best fun wave on earth.

Left · EXPERT

Greenbush

One of Indonesia's heaviest, roundest left barrels, breaking over shallow coral in the southern Mentawai and only on a big high tide.

Left · ADV

Thunders

Thunders Left

A heavy, shifting left off the Pagais that keeps breaking when most of the chain has gone flat or too big.

Left · INT/ADV

Asu

Pulau Asu

A 200 metre coral reef left in the Hinako Islands off Nias, fast and barrelling on a southwest swell and still rarely crowded.

Right · EXPERT

Bawa

Pulau Bawa

A thick, shallow right-hander in the Hinako Islands off Nias, Bawa is one of Sumatra's heaviest waves and strictly for experienced surfers.

Left · EXPERT

Way Jambu

Sumatran Pipeline

The Sumatran Pipeline: a heavy, shallow left on the Krui coast that throws thick barrels from the take-off and punishes mistakes.

Left · INT/ADV

Ujung Bocur

Karang Nyimbor

One of Sumatra's longest lefts: a 200 metre reef point at Tanjung Setia that barrels at the top, walls down the line and rarely goes flat.

Right · INT/ADV

Jenny's Right

A quiet right-hand reef break north of Krui that comes alive on wet season north-westerlies, when the rest of this coast has gone onshore.

Left and right · INT/ADV

Mandiri Beach

Mandiri

A long run of black sand south of Krui that catches every south swell, throwing thick shifting barrels for anyone willing to walk and start early.