Article by: Stuart Butler, August 2007
Monster waves and zero crowds - Yemen is surf's new frontier. Catch it before it breaks.
Surfing in Yemen is not for the casual amateur, and you won't be finding surf schools, Sex Wax and hang-five dudes crowding out Yemeni beaches any time soon.
It's the noble quest of surfers the world over: perfect, undiscovered waves. Located at the bottom end of the Arabian Peninsula and sharing the neighbourhood with such hot-spot companions as Ethiopia and Somalia, Yemen's not the first place to spring to mind when surfing's mentioned - but the word on the grapevine is that it's about to become the Next Big Thing. Its secret? An intense low-pressure system tied to the Indian Ocean monsoon. Between May and September it sends giant waves to pummel the Yemeni coast on a daily basis. I touched down in Yemen with my friends Toby and Brandon (a professional body-boarder) to check it out.
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