Independent kitesurf travel guide
Find the right wind. Stay somewhere extraordinary.
Luxury Kitesurfing connects the destination, its distinct local Kite Areas, the best months and exceptional stays so riders and non-riding partners can choose one trip with confidence.
One atlas for the whole travel decision
Most kite guides tell you where to ride. Hotel sites tell you where to sleep. Luxury Kitesurfing connects the destination, its separate Kite Areas, the season and the stay so the geography of the trip makes sense before you book.
Built for the rider and the whole trip
Compare destinations by month, understand the distinct riding areas within them and connect carefully considered stays to the Kite Areas around them.
Wind may start the conversation, but the setting and stay should make the journey worthwhile for everyone travelling.
Destination guides
- Antsiranana & Northern Madagascar, Madagascar
A thirty-square-kilometre emerald lagoon at Madagascar's northern tip, reached past Diego Suarez and almost nobody else.
- Aruba
A desert island in the southern Caribbean where the trade winds blow almost year-round and the leeward beaches stay flat.
- Atins & Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil
A village at the edge of a desert of white dunes and rainwater lagoons, reached by boat or 4x4 and by very few people.
- Auckland, New Zealand
A city built between two harbours, with flat sheltered water inside the Waitematā and open coast on either side.
- Sanur, Bali, Indonesia
Bali's easiest water: a shallow, reef-protected lagoon on the quiet east coast, twenty minutes from the airport.
- Barbados South Coast, Barbados
The windiest corner of the eastern Caribbean, with reef-sheltered flats on the south coast and swell outside them.
- Barr Al Hikman, Oman
Three shallow turquoise lagoons on Oman's empty east coast, blown by the khareef monsoon through the Gulf summer.
- Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands
A flat, dry Dutch Caribbean island best known for its diving, with steady trades and a shallow west-coast kite beach.
- Boracay, Philippines
A slender Philippine island with a famous west-facing beach and, fifteen minutes across it, the bay the Amihan blows over all winter.
- Cabarete, Dominican Republic
The Caribbean's original kite town on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, with 250 to 300 rideable days a year.
- Cape Hatteras, United States
A thin barrier island off North Carolina with shallow sound on one side and the best waves on the American east coast on the other.
- Cape Town & Blouberg, South Africa
Table Mountain behind you and the South Atlantic in front, on the wind the locals call the Cape Doctor.