Jinzun Surf Break – Donghe, Taitung, Taiwan

Jinzun was the first place in Taiwan to host an international surf contest. In 2011, the Asian Surfing Championships rated it a five-star competition site, and a year later the event was bumped up to the top seven-star level. It is still the biggest surf contest Taiwan has ever held.

The World Surf League has kept coming back since. In 2018 and 2019, Jinzun held two world championships in the same contest window, the World Longboard Championship and the World Junior Championship. According to the organizers, it was the first time since the WSL was founded that two world champions were crowned at the same venue.

The wave breaks over a cobblestone seabed and peels both left and right, and it is best for intermediate surfers and up. It works on swells from the east and south, so typhoon season and the winter monsoon can both light it up.

Did You Know? Before 2015, the World Surf League was called the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP), and Jinzun hosted events under both names.

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