Making it Personal
Sitting at the southern tip of Bali’s Bukit Peninsula, Uluwatu gained fame in the 1970s when surf film icon Alby Falzon directed Morning of the Earth, which introduced the world to the region’s virtually undiscovered waves. In 1974, legendary Hawaiian surfer Gerry Lopez visited the island and became one of the first to ride the fabled Balinese surf break.
To this day, surfers from around the world make the pilgrimage to Uluwatu where, after a day of chasing the waves that
