Lombok is famous for its beaches. Clean white sand, exotic coral formations, even sand that turns pink — you can find all of it on this small island. A hidden beach like this one is easy to slot into a Lombok daily tour.
Plenty of Lombok beaches are well known, some of them even abroad, but a handful are still very quiet and have barely been explored by travellers, local or foreign.
If crowded sand is not your thing, this is exactly the kind of place to look for. One beach that remains almost untouched is Pantai Segui, or Segui Beach.
Segui Beach lies in Sekaroh Village, Jerowaru District, East Lombok Regency. If you have already been to Pink Beach, finding this one is easy enough, since the two are only about 5 km apart. Locals call Segui “Pink Beach 2” because it also takes on a pink tint in the morning and late afternoon.
Tucked away behind a cornfield, the beach sees very few visitors. Fine, clean sand greets you the moment you arrive. The shoreline is short and framed by green hills, and that setting is what earns it a place among the hidden paradises of Lombok.
Unlike the far more famous Pink Beach, the water at Segui is pale blue and very still. At a glance it looks like one wide natural pool. The sand here is much finer, too.
Getting here takes roughly 2.5 hours from the city of Mataram. Once you reach the Jerowaru area in East Lombok, just ask people along the way for the road to Pink Beach, because it is the same route.
Ask for Segui Beach by name, though, and chances are most people will not know it. What you will find instead is a road sign pointing to Pink Beach, Segui Beach, Gili Sunut, and Tanjung Ringgit.
Follow those signs until you are about 100 metres short of where the road ends. Turn left, carry on for another 100 metres or so through a villager’s cornfield, and Segui Beach opens up in front of you, beautiful and quiet.
Since the beach is a long way from town, try to bring enough supplies with you. The road out here is empty, so it is a good idea to travel with a few friends and make the trip more enjoyable.
The sand turns pink in the morning and late afternoon, when the waves wash over it in the light of sunrise and sunset. Because the beach has not been explored or commercialised yet, there is no entrance fee and no parking fee. That also means visitors need to be far more careful. But beauty always asks for some extra effort, doesn’t it?
Happy adventuring with us.
