Siargao Island is number 9 in CNN Travel’s “World’s 50 Best Surf Spots.”
Siargao was picked because of its Cloud 9 waves which was described as dramatic and powerful.
A Cloud 9 is the best known surfing wave particular to Siargao. It has a worldwide reputation for its thick, hollow tubes.
The wave was discovered by travelling surfers in late 80s, and was named after the popular chocolate bar. It became famous in 1993 when American photographer John S. Callahan published the first major feature of Siargao in the US-based Surfer magazine.
The CNN Travel description of Siargao goes:
9. Cloud Nine, Siargao Island, Philippines
This dramatic and powerful reef break, which crashes onto shallow razor-sharp coral, offers right and left death rides.
Fearless surfers will experience a slice of paradise or hallucinations as waves wrap over them like a liquid cocoon.
Skin and sometimes bone are often ripped to shreds by the ocean bed.
World’s 50 Best Surf Spots:
- Pipeline, Oahu, Hawaii
- Supertubes, Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa
- Teaupo’o, Tahiti, French Polynesia
- Uluwatu and Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
- P-Pass, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
- Maverick’s, California
- Hossegor, France
- Puerto Escondido, Southern Oaxaca, Mexico
- Cloud Nine, Siargao Island, Philippines
- Lance’s Right, Sipora, Mentawais Islands, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
- Sultans, North Male, Maldives
- Trestles, Orange County, California
- Honolua Bay, Maui, Hawaii
- Montanita Beach, Montanita, Ecuador
- Rincon, Santa Barbara, California
- Nihiwatu, Sumba, Indonesia
- Manu Bay, Raglan, New Zealand
- Riyuewan, Sanya, Hainan Island, China
- Jaws, Maui, Hawaii
- The Box, Margaret River Valley, Australia
- Surfrider Beach, Malibu, California
- Superbank, Gold Coast, Australia
- Cloudbreak, Tavarua Island, Fiji
- Watergate Bay, Cornwall, England
- Backdoor, Oahu, Hawaii
- Pasta Point, Maldives
- Tamarindo Beach, Tamarindo, Costa Rica
- Bundoran Beach, County Donegal, Ireland
- Rincon, Puerto Rico
- Hanalei Bay, Hawaii
- Carrapateira, Portugal
- Coconuts, Samoa
- Sao Francisco do Sul, Brazil
- Pedra Branca Ericeira, Portugal
- Killer Point, Taghazoute, Moroco
- Les Cavaliers, Anglet, France
- Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada
- Ponta Preta, Maio, Cape Verde
- Biarritz, France
- Surf Pool, United Arab Emirates
- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Buxton, North Carolina
- Black’s Beach, San Diego, California
- The Bubble, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
- Surfer’s Point, Barbados
- Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka
- Surin Beach, Phuket, Thailand
- Fulong Beach, Taiwan
- Baja Malibu, Baja Norte, Mexico
- Eisbach, Munich
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