Kuta Lombok

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What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Kuta Lombok and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Ayam Taliwang & Sasak food116 min taxi38.7 km
• Tetebatu rice terraces & the interior116 min taxi38.8 km
• The Malimbu & Nipah coast viewpoints166 min taxi55.3 km
• Mount Rinjani & the crater rim168 min taxi56.0 km
• Snorkelling with turtles off the Gilis193 min taxi64.2 km
• The Gili Islands (beach)195 min taxi64.9 km
• The Gili Islands195 min taxi64.9 km
• Gili Trawangan sunset & nightlife196 min taxi65.4 km
• Sendang Gile & Tiu Kelep waterfalls199 min taxi66.2 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 3.Tanjung Aan & the Kuta beaches — Some of the most beautiful beaches in Indonesia sit around Kuta in the south — and the loveliest is Tanjung Aan, a horseshoe bay of soft, pale sand (famously fine as peppercorns underfoot) and calm, glass-clear turquoise water, with a hilltop nearby (Bukit Merese) for a jaw-dropping view over the whole coast. Swim, laze and climb the headland at sunset; the string of nearby bays — Mawun, Mawi, Seger — are just as gorgeous and often empty. This is Lombok's south at its dreamiest. Simply stunning. A beach day to remember.
• 5.Selong Belanak & learning to surf — A glorious white crescent of a bay in the south-west, Selong Belanak is both one of Lombok's prettiest beaches and its friendliest place to learn to surf — gentle, rolling beginner waves break over a sandy bottom, with cheap board hire and easygoing surf schools right on the sand. Take a lesson and catch your first wave, or just laze on the wide beach with a coconut and watch the surfers. It's a stunning, relaxed spot, and the south coast's clutch of surf breaks (Gerupuk, Mawi) are close by for the more experienced. A brilliant beach-and-surf day. Wonderful for beginners.
• 7.A traditional Sasak village — Lombok's indigenous Sasak people give the island its distinct culture, and you can step into it at a traditional village like Sade or Ende near Kuta — clusters of thatched, bamboo-and-clay houses and rice barns with sweeping roofs, where villagers still live traditionally, weave gorgeous ikat textiles on backstrap looms, and demonstrate crafts and customs. A short guided visit (tip your guide) is a genuine, fascinating window into Sasak life, weaving and architecture, far from the beaches. A meaningful, cultural highlight and a good souvenir stop. Interesting and authentic. Buy a woven cloth.
• 9.Pink Beach (Pantai Tangsi) — Out on Lombok's remote south-east coast lies a genuine natural wonder — Pink Beach (Pantai Tangsi), one of only a handful of pink-sand beaches on earth, its sand blushed rosy by crushed red coral mixed into the white. Set in a wild, undeveloped bay of clear water good for snorkelling, it's a bumpy but rewarding trip (often combined with a boat to nearby islets and a viewpoint) far from anywhere. Come for the novelty and the raw, empty beauty; the pink is subtlest and prettiest in bright sun. A unique, off-the-beaten-track highlight. Wild and special.
• 17.Bukit Merese — A grassy hill above the south-coast beaches with a 360° view of turquoise bays and rugged headlands — the spot for sunset with the wind in your hair. Just above Tanjung Aan.
• 18.Pantai Semeti — A wild, little-known beach of strange geometric rock formations and crashing surf on the south coast — dramatic and empty. Go for the scenery, not for swimming.