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Located 20 km from the coastal city of Krui, or about 60 km from
Liwa Regency, West Lampung, Tanjung Setia is well known not only for its beautiful
surfing location and big wave surfing —as high as 7 meters and and as long as
200 meters—but also for sea treasure like tuna and blue marlin inhabiting
in abundance, to say nothing of its beauty. Because of this, Tanjung Setia
is called a buried pearl.
It’s been recorded that more than 2,000 foreign visitors came to Tanjung
Setia in West Lampung to surf. Most of the visitors come from Australia and New
Zealand. They have come equipped with their surfing gear—surfing board, surfing
clothes, and surfing sunglasses. They usually stay for a week or more just
to enjoy the big waves on Tanjung Setia. Its surf equals that of Bali surfing
and Nias Island, and this has made visitors to Tanjung Setia feel at home and
prefer staying there longer on their surfing trip.
How to get to Tanjung Setia, Krui, and West Lampung:
It depends on where you will start. If you fly from Jakarta,
at Radin Inten Airport you can rent a minibus that takes you there via
Kota Agung, Wonosobo and Krui. It takes you about 4 or 5 hours. If you want to
cut corners on your expense, take a bus (Krui Putra bus) from Rajabasa bus
terminal in Bandar Lampung. Your surfing board will be safe on the roof of the
bus. This costs you around Rp.50.000 or 60.000, -- per person excluding your
surfing board and other gears.
During your stay in Tanjung Setia, you can stay in a coastal city
of Krui; there are decent hotels to stay in during your surfing holiday. Krui
residents are used to your being there and they are very friendly and nice
people to be with as well. Should you have any questions regarding this, do not
hesitate to contact me.
Other than surfing, visitors can also enjoy beach combing, diving,
swimming, fishing or just lie down on its white sandy beach. Actually, you can
do almost anything as far as beach activities are concerned.
With Tanjung Setia being known to the surfing world, Lampung
should be able to promote Tanjung Setia as a potential tourism resort which
will derive income for the local government. Up to now, there is no sign
of any actions taken by the local government to focus on improvement in the area
of tourism. As I noticed when I was passing through, the road to the surfing
beach is still badly constructed and some parts of the road are seemingly
neglected.
