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Kuma Surf
A covered terrace with a leather beanbag and a rattan chair facing a garden

The gallery

Everything, unretouched.

Shot here over a couple of seasons by people who were mostly meant to be surfing. Rooms, the house, the water, and the bits in between.

None of this is stock and none of it is generated. If a room looks like that in a photograph, it looks like that when you open the door, which is a lower bar than it should be and one a lot of places still miss.

The rooms

Five private rooms, one dorm.

Teak beds, marble floors, A/C in all of them, and Kuma's own-label soap in the bathrooms.

Deluxe room, made up
Deluxe room, morning light
En-suite bathroom
Water and glasses on the side table
Standard A/C room
Standard room from the door
Dorm bed made up
The Barrel room door

The house

Doors with names on them.

  • The mirror in the hallway
  • A room with the curtains open
  • The Ride Out door
  • The Low Tide door

The water

Where most of it happens.

Sand drills, first waves, and the walk back up with a board under your arm.

  • Pop-up practice, face full of concentration

    Pop-up practice, face full of concentration

  • Practising on the sand, two people standing on their boards

    Practising on the sand, two people standing on their boards

  • Out the back, waiting

    Out the back, waiting

  • Up on a longboard, arms out, riding the whitewash in

    Up on a longboard, arms out, riding the whitewash in

  • Up and steady

    Up and steady

  • Smiling on the sand, a white board behind her

    Smiling on the sand, a white board behind her

  • A kid getting a shove into a wave

    A kid getting a shove into a wave

  • Waist-deep in the whitewash, holding a yellow board upright

    Waist-deep in the whitewash, holding a yellow board upright

  • The group and their boards under the palms before a session

    The group and their boards under the palms before a session

  • Boards down and an umbrella up, waiting out the middle of the day

    Boards down and an umbrella up, waiting out the middle of the day

  • Fins up on the sand, boards resting between sets

    Fins up on the sand, boards resting between sets

  • The van heading down to the beach with the boards on the roof

    The van heading down to the beach with the boards on the roof

Everything else

Evenings, backwaters, the bowl.

Two people and a sunset
The tail end of an evening
The van, and a skateboard
The bowl, mid-line
Floating in the backwater
The boats coming in
An instructor talking a guest through it, board under one arm

Moving pictures

Four short films from the house.

Shot on the same phone-and-a-good-camera basis as everything else here. Tap one to play it, or open its title for the full page.

On Instagram

The week, as it happens: reels from the water, stories from the rooftop.

First waves, flat-day skate sessions, the long table after dark. It goes up on @kumasurfsvarkala before it goes anywhere else.

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Not sure which fits?

Send your dates, headcount and surf level. We'll point you toward the right room, session or week.

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