Watch: Indonesian Motorcycle Diaries // Episode Five
After an extended hiatus - which is explained below - Tom de Souza returns with the fifth instalment of IMD.
Still in Sumba, he gets taken to a lesser-surfed left, though as is Tom's way the majority of the video is spent talking to locals about both their customs and their daily life, which in this video includes how surfing has benefitted their villages.
Since Tom's last internet release, he's shifted his ambitions somewhat and is working on a longer documentary titled The Long Road Home - click to watch the trailer.
As his film travels continue Tom will keep posting on the 'net so stay tuned for both shorter updates and a longer release in the near future.
Comments
Always wanted to go on a land trip to Sumba, but it seems like a big mission for potentially wind affected, fickle or B-grade wave options, except for Occy's Left - but $4k a night to surf it is pretty steep.
Yeah I was kind of surprised by the waves there - I can imagine places definitely have their day, but there was a lot more waiting around for conditions to line up than I expected. I've heard even Occy's can be like that, which must drive some people insane if that's what they've gone there for.
It's a beautiful island, fascinating culture and languages, a wild history, and lovely people, but it probably broke my heart more than any other place in Indonesia. The poverty in East Sumba especially is devastating.
Pretty sure when they were filming the Green iguana that Sunny bailed early because he was sick of waiting for the left to turn on.......correct me if im wrong
Wow if this is true you've shattered my dreams of one day forking out for a stay at Nihiwatu - I thought it was super consistent as it seems to have the right ingredients - SW facing and offshore in the trades
Eating the pigeon was pretty gnarly.
pigeon is awesome, like a fitter quail, not duck not chicken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
cooking the whole hogs, like a haggis, innards included,
not done separately, is pretty intense and symptomatic
of a food-safe (hygienically speaking) and isolated society..
interesting watching this film project evolve over time.
(tom been pumping iron in an indo jail? dude's cut..)
I’m a big fan of this guys vids. Check his youtube.