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Surfing
Sand-bottom breaks for a first lesson, reef for everyone else. Boards go on the back of a scooter.
Explore Lombok.
The Island Starts at the Front Door
Kuta is a town you can walk out into, and the south coast begins where the town ends. Surf before breakfast, a bay you have never heard of after lunch, dinner back here with sand still in your bag.
Why Kuta.
A Town, Not a Resort Strip
Kuta is the middle of South Lombok and it is busy the way a town is busy. Warungs, coffee places, board rental, a market, people who live here. You get what you need without a shuttle bus, and the coast road out of town does the rest.
Atrium sits on Jalan Raya Kuta, 500 metres from the sand. Lombok International Airport is about 22 kilometres away, roughly 30 minutes by car, and the Mandalika Circuit is about 5 kilometres east, around 10 minutes. Everything below starts from that door and ends back at it.
Beaches
Kuta, Tanjung Aan, Selong Belanak and the bays nobody has named yet.
Surf
Soft sand bottoms for a first lesson, reef for people who already know.
Food
Warungs, coffee, beach clubs. Most of it walkable, none of it formal.
Water
Snorkelling, diving and freediving, off the south coast and the Gilis.
Inland
Rinjani, waterfalls, rice fields and villages, once the coast lets you go.
Things to do.
Seven Ways to Spend a Day
All of them start at the front door and end back here. Some are ten minutes down the road. One of them needs a guide and a spare night.
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Rinjani
The second highest volcano in Indonesia, with a lake in the crater. Go with a guide and give it the nights it asks for.
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Snorkelling and diving
Turtles off the Gilis, coral closer to home. Boats go from the beach and come back for lunch.
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Waterfalls
Benang Kelambu in the middle of the island, Sendang Gile in the north. Both are a drive and both are green the whole way up.
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Freediving
Warm water, no tank, one long breath. There are schools on the island that will take you from nothing.
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Cycling
Flat along the coast, steep the moment you turn inland. Rice fields, villages and a headwind on the way home.
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Doing nothing
Pick a bay, take a mat, stay until the light goes. This is the one most people come back for.
How the days go.
Three Days Out
From the Front Door
Nothing booked and nothing rushed. This is roughly what a day here turns into once you stop planning it.
The surf day
Early.
Coffee from the café downstairs, board on the scooter, in the water before the wind finds it.
Midday.
Back for the pool and something to eat while the sets fall apart without you.
Evening.
Warung dinner in town, then the roof for the last of the light.
The water day
Early.
Boat off the beach, out to the reef, masks on before anyone has really woken up.
Midday.
Lunch with sand in it, then a bay to lie in until the boat wants to leave.
Evening.
The bathhouse below the pools, then dinner under the canopy.
The inland day
Early.
Out of town on the coast road, then left, into the hills, until the sea is gone.
Midday.
A waterfall, rice fields, and lunch in a village that was not on the plan.
Evening.
Back late, dust everywhere, straight into the pool.
Lombok awaits you.
Make Atrium your home base for exploring South Lombok.
