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The biggest, brashest, least traditional beach resort in Bali, the KUTA-LEGIAN-SEMINYAK conurbation is just 10km southwest of Denpasar. Packed with hundreds of hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs and shops, the six-kilometre strip plays host to several hundred thousand visitors a year and yet, for all its hustle, it remains a very good-humoured place, almost completely unsleazy. The beach is quite possibly the most beautiful in Bali, with its gentle curve of golden sand stretching for 8km, lashed by huge breakers. These waves make Kuta a great beach for surfers, but less pleasant for swimming, with a strong undertow: always swim between the red- and yellow-striped flags. Poppies 2 is the centre of Kuta's surf scene, and the best place to buy boards or get them repaired; you can also rent boards on the beach (about Rp25,000). Monthly tide charts are compiled by Tubes bar on Poppies 2 and you can learn to surf at the Cheyne Horan School of Surf (mobile tel 081/835-7690; US$55/day). Wanasari Wisata, inside the G-Land surf shop at Jl Pantai Kuta 8b (tel 0361/755588,), organizes four-to-seven-day surfing tours to the mega-waves off Sumbawa, East Java, West Java, Lombok and West Timor (US$200 to US$425), and Bali Surfing (tel 0361/730184) does surfing packages to Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Nusa Lembongan (US$325-750 inclusive).
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