Areguling Beach Lombok — Attraction in Lombok

Positives: You’ll have the beach for yourself, just a few surfers hanging around Not many people trying to sell you things as well. And it’s a beautiful view with nice water Also is fairly easy access, especially on the beloved moped. Last part is a dirt road. Free sunbeds No entry fee or parking fee

Negatives: there are a handful of sunbeds, and they are in poor condition😅 We didn’t see any toilet or shower utilities. Also are a fair bit of local boats close to the beach.

Now the worst off all, the trash. Please people, if you visit the beach. Take your own trash with you and maybe some extra if you can✌🏻 And take it to a place where it won’t just be thrown out at the back.

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I met the surf teachers from LMBK at the surfspot Are Guling in the water. They behaved like wild animals in the water: screaming and shouting in the face of other (respectful) surfers, threatening surfers to surf less waves or leave the water (4 of them vs 1 tourist). On the other side they pushed beginners as well as advanced surfers(!!) into the biggest waves of the day and kept blocking the peak for their students (sometimes even pretending to go for a wave, so mr. money could get pushed into the nicest waves). I am so sad about that heavy localism behavier, sad for the surf community and sad for that place. Hope LMBK surfschool owner realises how his...

We stayed locally in a gem. No problem with access. Loved the village setting. We are an Irish family living in a much smaller fishing village in the Atlantic. It literally made us cry, the insurmountable rubbish would be tough for their 700-person community to get rid of in a month. Our only contribution this holiday is always not only to leave only our footprints in the sand but take-away what rubbish we can carry. I don't know the answer to their problems, but tourism is an economic benefit when managed correctly. The...