Why? The longest left in the known Universe.
What you need: Good wetsuit, massive swell, 4×4 back to the peak (for Donkey Bay)
Boards: Thickness under your chest, round/pin tail.
Also: It’s notoriously hard to take off on — according to the pros.
Get there: Fly to South Africa, then 4WD it.

Dusty straight lines, square roundabouts, no road signs and a bit of Bavaria…Going to Namibia is like going nowhere else. Nowhere fun at least, and if you make the drive up through the green and lush Cape provinces, crossing the border into Namibia feels like you’re entering a different world: no towns, no tourists sites, no colourful locals walking by the road. Namibia is just a big desert that you drive through as fast as you can; actually the world’s oldest desert so they say. It is hot, dusty as hell and as you head north and then west at some point, and look at the map every couple of hours, you’ll have made very little progress. So you put your foot down…

2000 km of more or less deserted coast offers the goods largely in the form of South Atlantic juice, refracting on to sand points, it’s just a matter of finding them. You’ll need a good nose for finding surf spots from maps, or at least be real handy on Google Earth. South African surfers know their way and tend to stick to certain breaks, while pro surfers from across the planet head straight to Donkey Bay to score the infamous Skeleton Coast left. But if the swell is big and west enough and you do score that lefthander, it will be worth the ballache.

The Namibian waters aren’t as unwelcoming as the deserts, but still do a pretty good job at scaring visiting surfers: brown, cold water, with strong rips and a lively fauna, including some of the largest seal colonies anywhere. Your refuge from the desert will be in weird little towns like Walvis Bay or Luderitz. By weird, we mean Africa x Germany, white people dressed in old fashioned Bavarian clothing, drinking excellent cold draft beer. Namibia is a mission, a true surfing frontier. But if you love solitude, desert landscapes and the ever-present threat of death by various means as much as long pointbreaks, it’s the trip for you. About as far a cry from a Maldives package as you can possibly get.

More info on Donkey Bay here.