Bingin Beach

This guide to Bingin Beach in Bali opens on a July 2025 morning when excavators arrived on the cliff and tore down forty-five long-running warungs and homestays under police escort. It weighs the official reason, missing permits on state-owned land, against what the people who worked there believed was really behind it. You'll hear from a restaurant owner, a longtime staffer and a business owner about what the cliff meant to them. Underneath it all is the story of the surfers who first found the hollow wave breaking over the reef below.