---
node: spot_lombok_selong_belanak_beach
type: spot
slug: selong_belanak_beach
destination: dest_lombok
title: "Selong Belanak Beach"
lead: "Selong Belanak is a wide horseshoe bay on Lombok's south coast with white sand and a shallow, slow-breaking wave. It is the island's usual answer to where a beginner should learn to surf."
published: 2026-08-17
updated: 2026-08-17
image_file: spot_lombok_selong_belanak_beach.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pantai_Selong_Belanak,_Lombok,_Indonesia.jpg"
image_author: "Friskaexaktiningtyas"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## Overview

The bay curves for well over a kilometre between two headlands, and the sea shelves so gently that the water stays waist-deep a long way out. That is what makes the wave here forgiving: it breaks softly over sand rather than reef, and it re-forms often enough for a beginner to get repeated attempts at standing up. Fishing boats are pulled up at the eastern end, and buffalo are still walked along the sand in the early morning.

## Highlights

Board hire and lessons are set up along the beach and cost little; the instructors push you into the wave and the sand bottom makes a fall harmless. Walk to either headland for the view back across the whole curve. Sunset is the busy hour and the light is worth it. There is no town here — a line of warungs behind the sand is the whole infrastructure, so bring cash.