Batu Karas in west java is a sheltered beach and point break that has quite reliable surf, a heaven for beginner surfer. November to April (wet season) provides favoured time of year for waves. Works best in offshore winds from the south southwest. Groundswells are more common than windswelss and the best swell direction is from the south.
batu karas beach
friendly wave for beginner surfer
Locate 40 km from Pangandaran beach and 135 km from Bandung, west java. You can hire a car or motocycle from Pangandaran Beach. Compare to Bali and Lombok, the wave at Batu Karas is more friendly, 2-3 metres high. If you want to learn surfing, this is the right location.
Accomodation and hotels here are more cheap than at Pangandaran Beach. You can also stay at resident house. Other activity available here is camping, trekking and hiking and fishing.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am
can you get beginners lessons? The beach is very rocky, I think.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:28 am
hello doru, yes it is…the beach very rocky in some location, so we must carefull with this.
but in main location theres not much rock
i added the picture
July 17th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i can’t surf, but i am really love the waves….i think i must schedule my time to see this beach.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:25 am
[...] Pangandaran was located in West Java, in previous articles you could find the locations that were adjacent with pangandaran that is cukang taneuh and batu karas beach [...]
January 17th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
my nine years boy kid wants to learn surfing is that possible to do that here in batu karas? how about lesson fee information?
Thaks
March 5th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
woa, who says the beach is rocky?? most part of the surfing beach are shallow (about 1m depth) sandy beach.. yeah, there’s part of the beach that is rocky, but now there’s signs for swimmers n surfers to avoid that area of the beach.. and not only that, people get warned diredtly when they swim/surf too close to the rocky area..
also, if you want to have a more challenging waves, you can go to bulak benda (about 30mins drive from batu karas) where the beach is facing the indian ocean directly, n the waves are similar to that one in kuta beach..
only more emptier..
April 28th, 2010 at 12:10 am
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May 21st, 2010 at 10:00 am
Surfing is one of my favorite sports eventhough i got a bad accident last year because of very high surfs.`’~
May 21st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Surfing is really the best sport out there, i love the adrenaline rush when surfing on big waves.;;:
August 1st, 2010 at 11:54 pm
i broke my arm on a freak surfing accident but hey, surfing is a nice sport;;;