Strap your surfboard and hit the road towards Pecatu, in the south, where you’ll find Blue Point, also called Bat Cave or Suluban. Blue Point is a wide, white-sand beach that is about 5 minutes by vehicle from the Uluwatu temple, located to the west of Padang Padang. This beach gets its unusual moniker since it’s only accessible through a cave-like crevice. While the large, Uluwatu-like barrels here are exclusively for experts, the surrounding landscape and rock formations are breathtaking enough to warrant a trip even if you’re not a surfer. A word of caution: the reef and rocks here are sharp. The break is quite a way from the beach, so you’ll need to do some paddling in addition to fighting the strong currents.

The greatest time to go surfing here is in the middle of the year when the waves are large and consistent. Professional surfers, however, frequent this beach for the vast majority of the year. It’s entertaining to watch the surfers from the various restaurants and cafés perched above the cliffs. You can see surfers riding their last wave of the day during the evening’s breathtaking sunset. Single Fin Bali is perhaps one of the best restaurants in the area.