![]() Here, the early bird catches the crowd-free surfing from 5am to 7am, with the best waves a few hours either side of high tide. Playa Maderas is only accessible by four-wheel-drive and while the first hour of the trip tootles past markets bursting with fruits you've never seen before, the second hour involves clinging on for dear life in the back of a pick-up truck. This place isn't for gnarly obsessives - it's more an Indian main course with a side of surfing.Īddress: Soul & Surf, Golden Beach, South Cliff, Janardhanapuram, Kerala, India Telephone: +91 9633 676 581 Price: Soul & Surf offers seven days from £189 per person, including daily surf guiding Twice a week the stretching is followed by films, projected onto a sheet hung beneath the palms. Sunset is a divine backdrop for rooftop yoga. You may also witness the chaotic but joyous classes that Soul & Surf runs for local children, many in underpants rather than board shorts. With shallow, uncrowded waves, Kerala could never claim to rival Indonesia, but it has a smattering of great breaks off Varkala and along the nearby coast. These two sociable Brits transformed an ordinary guesthouse into a 15-bedroom barefoot-chic base with stunning surfing images and antique furniture. Open from October to May, it's run by Sofie and Ed Templeton (who also have a surf outfit in Sri Lanka), who race around in two classic surf buggies - a pimped-up Hindustan Ambassador taxi and green Mahindra Jeep. An hour north of Trivandrum in the village of Varkala, Soul & Surf is swaddled by palm trees on red cliffs above the Arabian Sea. It's the first in the country to offer surfing with tuition from professional teachers. ![]() This colourful Keralan retreat is breaking new ground for India. ![]() ![]() Soul & Surf, India Soul & Surf, India Lo-fi and low-key ![]()
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