About Sumba
Sumba lies in eastern Indonesia, an hour's flight from Bali — yet a world away. Wild, beautiful and wonderfully quiet.
Sumba is one of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands — roughly twice the size of Bali, yet home to a fraction of its visitors. Its landscape swings between rolling savannah hills, limestone escarpments and some of the finest beaches in Southeast Asia, where wild horses still wander the shoreline. The island's villages remain centres of a living culture: families keep megalithic stone tombs, raise their houses on towering thatched roofs, and pass down the art of hand-woven ikat from generation to generation. With its dry climate, uncrowded breaks and deep-rooted traditions, Sumba offers a rare kind of luxury — space, silence and authenticity.
Long stretches of pale sand, dancing mangroves at Walakiri and uncrowded, world-class waves on the west coast.
Towering thatched houses, stone megalith tombs and ikat textiles woven by hand — a culture still very much alive.
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Getting here
Daily flights from Bali land at Tambolaka (west) and Waingapu (east).
Best time
The dry season, roughly May to October, brings golden hills and clear skies.
Pasola
Each February–March, horsemen gather for this dramatic ancestral festival.