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One of the most attractive island and more exciting called the Mentawai Island , Indonesia is the preferred destination of the people who like the adventurous sport, surfing. The perfect waves, the warm water and the incredible atmosphere make at this place the paradise surfers. People of everywhere in the world do not deal to come to the other side with the Atlantic Ocean.

Almost 150km localised in the west of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean, Mentawai Island, Indonesia located at the border of a continental shelf, which is surrounded by the coral reefs. Deep water flows upwards on these coral reefs which protect the continental shelf. Siberut, Sipura, Pagai of north (Pagai Utara) and Pagai of the south (Pagai Selatan) are the four principal islands, which compose the chain of the island of Mentawai, Indonesia and these islands are surrounded per much more small islands. The island of Siberut (4030 kilometers ) is the largest island among these four islands of Mentawai. The position of these islands makes them an exceptional place for surfer. The residents of the islands are called the Mentawai Island. The Mentawai, Indonesia contain one of most attractive and the good-preserved indigenous cultures of the world, also the Mentawai Tattoo is very interesting. But, which had with the vagueness of tide without restriction of the modernization of Indonesia this culture is dangerously close being extinct.