Kitesurfing in Asia

Destinations

• Sanur, Bali, Indonesia

  Bali's easiest water: a shallow, reef-protected lagoon on the quiet east coast, twenty minutes from the airport.

• Barr Al Hikman, Oman

  Three shallow turquoise lagoons on Oman's empty east coast, blown by the khareef monsoon through the Gulf summer.

• Boracay, Philippines

  A slender Philippine island with a famous west-facing beach and, fifteen minutes across it, the bay the Amihan blows over all winter.

• Coron & Calamianes Islands, Philippines

  Limestone islands and wreck-diving water in northern Palawan, with an Amihan season from November to March.

• Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka

  A peninsula on Sri Lanka's north-west coast where wind accelerates through the Palk Strait and blows for nine months a year.

• Koh Phangan, Thailand

  A Gulf of Thailand island with three separate wind seasons, where the kiting is quiet, warm and unhurried.

• Ekas Bay, Lombok, Indonesia

  A remote bay in southern Lombok with a reef-held lagoon, butter-flat at low tide and breaking over the reef at high.

• Mui Ne, Vietnam

  Red sand dunes above a long Vietnamese beach, with wind that the desert behind it makes stronger than the forecast.

• Phan Rang, Vietnam

  A shallow lagoon inside a reef with waves outside it, and some of the strongest reliable wind in South East Asia.

• Rameswaram, India

  A pilgrimage island in the Gulf of Mannar with two wind seasons and over three hundred rideable days a year.

• Banda Aceh, Indonesia

  Jungle and mountains behind a warm Sumatran coast, with two wind windows and almost no other kiters.

• Lakey Peak, Sumbawa, Indonesia

  A legendary Indonesian wave on a remote stretch of Sumbawa, with strong wind from July to October and nothing else to do.