The Place
West Sumba, Indonesia
At the gate
Pantai Kerewe
Our beach. A wide arc of pale sand with the reef working offshore, tidal pools at dawn and a grotto at the headland where the water turns the colour of bottle glass. It is rarely busy. Most mornings the only tracks in the sand are from the night’s tide.
The district
Lamboya
The sub district that holds the coast. Lamboya is Marapu country, with hilltop villages of peaked thatch houses and megalithic tombs, and it is the heartland of the Pasola. A short drive in any direction puts you among people living much as they have for generations.
The wider island
West Sumba
Beyond Lamboya the regency opens into rice terraces, the tiered Lapopu waterfall in Manupeu Tanah Daru, hidden lagoons and a coastline of empty beaches. Sumba is dry, big and still largely undiscovered. A few days is enough to feel how far it sits from everywhere else.
Direct flights from Bali to Tambolaka take one hour. A 90 minute drive south takes you to our gate.