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Nikita surf team rider Rafaële Deguehegny has been globe-trotting in search of some beautiful beaches and surf.
by Michelle Rushbrooke
06/05/2008:// She originates from Anglet in France and for the last four years she has been studying by correspondence in order to be able to live her two main passions; surfing and traveling. Raf started surfing at eighteen and every winter heads to destinations like Australia, Hawaii, Morocco, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Equador and Peru with her university books and her surfboard. All trips have filled her head with experiences, waves, people, culture, treks and adventures.
She first went to Equador and Peru during a four month long trip last year and loved it so much she went back to Peru for just over two months this winter, throughout January to March. The Latin-American lifestyle and atmosphere keeps Raf inspired with their lust for life and as a complete change to her usual surroundings in Europe. Here’s her story…….
What I love is the fact that it is Spanish speaking, which makes it easy to communicate with people and is a good start when you want to understand a culture.
I went back to Peru for three particular reasons:
1. The country has so many different things to offer that it might take years to explore it for real; mountains, Amazonian forest, beaches, people, ruins…so much to see. 2. Amazing wave quality. 3. The Peruvian coast is especially ugly and poor and in my opinion, one of the most hostile Latin countries on its coast to feel really safe as a tourist, or a girl... So of course on first word it doesn't sound like a good reason to go back there, but actually it is...
It doesn’t seem that tourism has much of an interest to develop along the coast. It is one of the few places left where you can surf and the landscape is virtually untouched and not wasted by people. For example, those who travel but can't avoid changing the place by buying land, putting in bars, hotels, doing parties which only destroys the culture at the same time. It remains authentic and even if it can be rough, people are amazing. You get to experience their real rhythm of life; waiting hours for a car to go to the city to get to the internet, phone and other facilities, having some days without water, electricity and not being able to reach the city if it rains too much.
It makes you realize that having everything in the moment you want it is very particular of our northern culture. This is just what I love about traveling; getting closer to what other people’s everyday life is like, getting more down to earth, and valuing what we have at home.
Not always but most of the time I travel on my own. This time I went back to the village I was staying in last year so I was reacquainted with everyone I knew.
The village is pretty ugly looking; a military zone with fishermen in a very deserted area, but it is a place where I feel as good as at home. People are laid back, simple and spontaneous. It can be rough sometimes, it’s normal; poverty is a complete reality there. However people are so full of life; you have a feeling that everything is possible. Latin America in general is a heart-warming area of the world.
The time I had was pretty mellow. I stayed in a house with a local couple and their children, surfing a good part of the day then going to buy fish on the jetty as soon as the fisherman came back from their fishing trips. I continued to study and hang around with the local women of the village, listening to all their funny gossip. Then I traveled for two weeks in the mountains trekking and getting some fresh air and good quality of food, happy days!
It was just perfect. Usually it isn’t a good time of the year to go and the water is quite cold all year round, but this time around we had the ‘La Niña’ phenomenon - it brought us a lot of rain, too many mosquitoes, but perfect waves and warm water.
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