{"id":97473,"date":"2014-08-18T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97473"},"modified":"2014-08-18T06:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:54:33","slug":"surf-travel-an-insiders-guide-to-teahupoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97473","title":{"rendered":"Surf Travel &#8211; An insider\u2019s guide to Teahupoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the Billabong Pro Tahiti underway and the forecast predicting a great run of solid swell, we take an inside look at the world\u2019s most infamous wave:\u00a0Teahupoo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Location: Teahupoo is on the southwest side of the main island in Tahiti, about an hour\u2019s drive from the capital, Papeete. It is known as the \u201cthe end of the road,\u201d as it is the termination point of the only road that follows the southwest coast. The wave itself lies in a coral pass about 500 meters offshore of the main village, a five-minute boat ride or 20 minute paddle to the break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The optimal conditions: To paddle out on a clean four- to six-foot south swell with the sun piercing through the lush mountain backdrop is close to surfing nirvana\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/insiders-guide-teahupoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Billabong Pro Tahiti underway and the forecast predicting a great run of solid swell, we take an inside look at the world\u2019s most infamous wave:\u00a0Teahupoo. Location: Teahupoo is on the southwest side of the main island in Tahiti, about an hour\u2019s drive from the capital, Papeete. It is known as the \u201cthe end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97474,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97473\/revisions\/97474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}