NIHI Rote Resort Brings Surf, Luxury, and Purpose to Indonesia

Somewhere at the far southeastern edge of Indonesia, closer to Timor than Bali and a world away from the crowds, a new chapter in surf travel is quietly unfolding. Welcome to NIHI Rote.

“It looked like the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia,” recalls founder Michael Schwab of the first time he stood on the now-transformed stretch of Boa Beach. “No power, no water, just this perfect right-hander and endless potential.”

More than a decade later, that same raw coastline has evolved into one of...