Santolo Beach — Attraction in West Java

Santolo Beach in Garut Regency is a beach by the Indian Ocean, located some 260 kms southeast of the national capital Jakarta, 170 kms southeast of the province capital Bandung and 100 kms south of Garut City. It is a 5-6 hours driving by car from Bandung, or about 8-9 hours from Jakarta, all driving times are subject to route selection and real-time conditions.

The beach itself offers very beautiful views and some pretty cool spots to take photos, photographers must love the area, which is very nice. What it lacks is adequate accommodations that comply with global standards. The guest houses are just local family-run businesses and they will offer not more than a typical room inside a typical house of the area.

As this beach is very remote even if compared from the regency capital, do not expect any of the locals to speak any degree of English. Most of them only speak Indonesian and the main language of communication among the locals is the Sundanese language, which is very different from Indonesian itself. Another drawback of the remoteness is the limited network coverage of internet, even the most nationwide carrier Telkomsel only manages to provide 2G and a limited in some areas 3G/HSDPA network there. LTE connections are nonexistent. Carriers like XL still has limited connections up to 3G while others such as Indosat, 3, are completely dysfunctional.

Finding something to eat isn't a big deal at all since many of the home stay providers are running canteens as well in the same unit, so getting an accomodation that is also a canteen would be a good idea. Even though, there wouldn't be a package that offers an overnight stay with a breakfast because you must purchase them separately. The food offered here will mostly consist of seafood based products since this is a coastal area while options of meat besides fish are limited to chicken. Beef is very hard to find in this vicinity.

Notice is to be taken seriously since swimming in the beach is prohibited due to the high tides and rapidly appearing vortices and rigorous waves of the Indian Ocean, especially at night. Many sudden disappearances have occured due to ignoring the circumstances, most of them resulting in death due to drowning by the vortices.

Overall I would recommend this beach if you're an Indonesian, but if you're an international traveller it might be quite a challenge to find the best of...

A few weeks almost touched two months ago my friends and I were visiting this place, we used two cars for eleven people. The distance was quite long enough from Jatinangor to Santolo Beach it is around 150 km less. We went to The Santolo Beach at 9 am and arrived around 2 pm. Because it was spending 4-5 hours, for arrived right there. It was my first time came to that place and was my first time after almost two years never had to visit some beach. We felt happy right there, although just swum and played the sand. The Santolo Beach was quiet, even if it was Saturday. The atmosphere and the vibe made us wanted to swim, because the weather was hot. The residents were fun and kind to each tourist. Right there just wasn't preseting the ocean and the sand, but we got to rent the boat for seiling around the areas for the time what we wanted as the cost we paid. Furthermore, The Santolo Beach presented the culinary of the seafood, and the motel for rent if we wanted to stay at overnight. Unfortunately, we didn't stay because we decided to go back home. There was some deficiency such as price of admission counted by person, one person almost was Rp15.000. Moreover, the price of motels would be increased to expensive if we hadn't booking before. Soap and Shampoo were so expensive than the real price. Sofdrink and sachet drink we thought it was expensive too, because we had the experience from there and we considered about it. There's stuff was little bit expensive, either because the distance from the beach to the swalayan market long enough or was a lied. It was happening increased the price with and without the...

Pantai Santolo menjadi pantai favorit masyarakat Garut untuk sekedar berlibur sejenak. Memiliki bentang pantai yang cukup luas dengan pasir yang halus, Pantai Santolo sering digunakan sebagai dermaga kapal-kapal nelayan yang mengadu nasib di lautan lepas untuk mencari ikan. Konon, pada dahulu kala pantai ini pernah difungsikan sebagai dermaga untuk mengangkut rempah-rempah menuju kapal besar yang berada di tengah laut oleh Belanda. Nama lain dari Pantai ini adalah Pantai Cilauteureun yang berarti air laut di muara Cilauteureun bergerak bukan menuju laut, melainkan kembali lagi ke arah muara. Singkatnya biasa disebut air laut yang mengalir ke darat. Peristiwa seperti ini hanya dapat ditemukan di dua tempat, yakni Pantai Santolo Garut dan Prancis. Nama Santolo merupakan nama sebuah pualu kecil di sebrang pantai Cilauteureun.

Daya tarik utama dari Pantai Santolo ini adalah gulungan ombak yang besar. Karena memiliki gulungan ombak yang besar, maka aktivitas yang paling banyak ditemukan disini adalah berselancar. Namun bagi yang tidak bisa berselancar jangan khawatir karena masih ada aktivitas yang dapat dilakukan, seperti bermain water sport.

Pemandangan yang ditawarkan oleh Pantai Santolo sangat memukau. Pada sebelah kanan pantai ini, kita dapat melihat hijaunya pepohonan yang menutupi kaki gunung Papandayan. Tidak hanya itu, kita dapat menemukan bangunan-bangunan tua yang dibangun pada masa penjajahan Belanda yang dibangun pada tahun 1850.

Selain memiliki gulungan ombak yang besar, ternyata Pantai Santolo merupakan pusat tempat pelelangan ikan. Mulai dari udang, cumi hingga berbagai jenis ikan laut yang masih segar dapat ditemukan disini. Karena masih segar, kita dapat langsung menikmati hidangan seafood ini di warung-warung makan yang terdapat di...