Balian

Surf Guide

While not the ultra-perfect green barrels that most surfers come to Bali for, Balian is still a swell magnet, and a place that will have decent surf when everywhere else is flat. The tradewinds blow sideshore here, and the rainy season westerlies blow onshore. Balian is a place for early-morning sessions with the potential for a late-afternoon glass-off. The wave at Balian is a rivermouth beach and rock break that offers up very rippable, shifting, A-frame peaks. Usually the lefts are better than the rights, and both can show an inside barrel section when it all comes together. Balian is not a place to go when there is a big swell running. It will be impossible to paddle out and the currents will become dangerous. If a big swell is running, most surfers will continue west to Medewi.