Discovering India
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, perhaps the best and most consistent ocean to be a surfer, lies the subcontinent of India. Long overshadowed by neighboring countries like Maldives and Sri Lanka,...
View ArticleSurfing Haiti
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming surfEXPLORE book, Surfing Tropical Beats, by Sam Bleakley.In Haiti, the curtain is always half-raised, so that you never know if the show is about to...
View ArticlesurfEXPLORE Taps Into The Philippines
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: On the east coast of the Philippines, there are many quality waves that have never been seen by surfers, let alone ridden. On a recent surfEXPLORE project...
View ArticleRarely Surfed Lineups around the Planet
surfEXPLORE is a multi-lingual, multi-national collective of explorers, surfers, photographers, authors, researchers, cultural anthropologists and artists dedicated to surfing exploration. Since 2007,...
View Article20 Best Surfing Islands
Surf is everywhere. It rolls past our coastlines, whipped up by storms off shore, held up by offshore winds, and can go from playful to terrifying the blink of an eye. Sometimes it’s blue, sometimes...
View Article10 Endangered Secret Spots
Love them or hate them, secret spots have been and integral part of surf culture for decades. SurfEXPLORE’s Erwan Simon puts forward an opinion that secrets spots are negative by default, that many...
View ArticleAsian Surf Adventure with SurfEXPLORE
In the last decade or so, our surfEXPLORE group has scoured the planet for unsurfed waves and surf adventure. One of our favorite locations is Asia–where surfers are few and waves are many. From the...
View ArticlesurfEXPLORE Africa: Examining the World’s Least-Surfed Continent
With more than fifty sovereign nations covering a vast expanse of the planet, Africa is the least-surfed continent on earth. Despite a wealth of waves, there are many reasons why large areas of Africa...
View ArticleSurfing Mozambique Reveals Perfect Points and Culture
With its long sand beaches and many offshore islands, the coastline of Mozambique in East Africa has long been something of a mystery to surfers. With a history of war dating from the independence...
View ArticleInterview: Linus Chen
Linus Chen is a Swede. He lived in Fontainebleau in France for a while and had the time of his life. He graduated in 2012, after three years of journalism and media production education. Straight after...
View ArticleLost Then Found: Sierra Leone’s Return to Surf Perfection
The surfEXPLORE group, in association with battleface Travel Medical insurance, recently completed a project in the West African country of Sierra Leone. A former British colony between Guinea and...
View Article24 Reasons Why Indonesia is the World’s Best Surfing Country
Indonesia is the world’s best surfing country. That’s a big claim, but the sheer variety and year-round consistency of the waves in this tropical archipelago of more than 18,000 islands back it up.If...
View ArticleExploring the Globe: Around the World with SurfEXPLORE
Congratulations! You have just been named the winner of the MegaBucks MultiMillionaire lottery! Now that you are filthy rich, forget the one-way trip to Mars. There’s no water there.What better way...
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