Bingin

Surf Guide

Once a sleepy little beach with a handful of warungs, Bingin has changed a lot in the last few years. Nowadays, there is a full on beach community at Bingin with one hundred different places to stay. Even with all of this development, Bingin has maintained it's charm and is a great place to go and spend a few days. For surfers, Bingin is all about perfect barrels. This wave at the end of the Impossibles' reef loves a four-foot swell and a mid-low tide. When it's on, every wave of every set will have a clean, open, perfect, barrel. If you want to get a barrel, this is the place where it's almost guaranteed. However, you will not be the only one in the water seeking this experience. Bingin can be a very crowded place to surf. A small take off spot, a community of visiting surfers, and red-hot locals that know every twist of the reef, can make it difficult to actually catch one of these perfect barrels. Another aspect of Bingin that visiting surfers should be aware of is the end section "stop signs" No other piece of reef in Indonesia has collected more skin from surfers than this clump of raised coral. It's important for surfers to understand that Bingin is not a long wave. Drop in, get barrelled, pull out. Going for that extra turn will usually leave the unsuspecting surfer high and dry with an afternoon trip to the local clinic for stitches. To get to Bingin: Coming from Kuta, go to the Bypass road and head towards Nusa Dua. A few kilometer's down the road you will arrive at a turn off with a sign for Uluwatu. Follow this road through the twists, and up the hill to the top of the Bukit Penninsula. Continue on this road through the four-way intersection until you reach a turn off onto Jln. Melasti and see signs for Padang Padang Beach. Follow this road until you pass the Jiwa Juice Internet Café on your left (Stop in for fresh bread and delicious home baked sweets) A few hundred meters down the road you will see an all white, dirt road, with a lot of sign for Bingin and accomodations. Follow this road and park in the designated parking area. Click here to download Surfline's Bali Surf Guide pdf.