MENTAWAI, WEST SUMATRA
Surfers Paradise
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
There are only three beaches in the world where surfers can find their dream of a long tunnel: Hawaii, Tahiti and Mentawai. Avid surfers will travel far and wide to seek the perfect wave and in Mentawai, they will find 99 challenging sites, with 'bena' tongues and poisoned coral. If Hawai is known as the Mecca of surfing, Mentawai is its Jerusalem.
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Like a penguin, Sandi Slamet dove under the three-storey-high wave. He vanished for a moment, then surfaced again, his body arched. The wave rose up under his board, forming the curled-over crest known as a barrel. He rode in this tunnel for eight seconds. "Yeeees, I defeated it (the wave)," he called out in his uniquely accented Balinese-Sundanese English.
Sandi's feat drew a round of applause from other surfers sitting astride their boards in the o
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