The Best Surfing in the World

A rapidly expanding sport, surfing offers flexibility, constant challenges, and an exhilarating learning curve. Like peacocks strutting their stuff, surfers ply their sport with jazzy surfboards within full view of scores of impressed onlookers, and the fact that many of these surf dudes seem to be tall, blond and bronzed can only help re-enforce the glamour of this sport. Some of the best surf spots in the world are also great social meccas.

However, the prevalence of lightweight wetsuits enables more and more people to learn to surf in an ever expanding range of locations. Surfing is not an easy sport to learn, it takes a lot of practicing on the beach and in the shallows before being able to catch the first wave - and further practice before you can stand up. But it's precisely these challenges that make surfing so worthwhile once you have mastered it - and even then, the learning doesn't stop.

Related categories: Diving, Snorkelling, Windsurfing, Kitesurfing.

Experts on Surfing

Merrick Davis

Merrick Davis is a two times Australian and World Pro Am Surfing Champion, who was competing on the World Professional Circuit until 1995. Since leaving the surfing circuit, Merrick has been passing his expansive knowledge and love of surfing on to...
Ian Wilson

Ian Wilson was born in Edinburgh and grew up in New Zealand with a yearning to travel. He's been globetrotting since he went round the world at the age of nine. After university in New Zealand and Oxford, where he gained a DPhil in political...
Lucky McDowell

Lucy (Lucky) McDowell graduated from Boston University in 2000 with an ill-advised Economics degree which she didn’t want to use. She decided to take some time off over the summer and learn to surf, something she’d always wanted to do, before she...