Surfers Paradise - surfing playground

Surfers Skyline - Nature's Backdrop
The Changing Face of Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise continues to experience unabated development with new apartment blocks stretching skywards.While Surfers retains its natural beauty - sandy beaches and great surf, canals and beautiful mountain backdrop - it has changed in character over the years.
I describe the change as the Japanization of Surfers Paradise. Many of the boutique stores are now owned by Japanese business people and the whole strip is oriented to Japanese tourists. Hotels, for instance, have extensive Japanese breakfast buffets and signage everywhere is in Japanese (as well as English).
Japanese visitors are wonderful people who are polite and respectful and enjoy their surroundings immensely (taking endless photos). However, one of the consequences of the Japanization of Surfers Paradise is that the local visitors with families tend to stay at other beaches such as Broadbeach and Burleigh Heads rather than Surfers.
The local youth, though, frequent Surfers Paradise for the high life. "Schoolies' Week" at Surfers in October has become an institution with thousands of school leavers descending on Surfers Paradise to celebrate their "release" from School.
The local youth often rent (in groups) sub-penthouses in luxury high rise apartments and enjoy the surfing and the night life of Surfers Paradise.
Photo Credit: Japanese Wedding on Surfers Beach by Sir Mervs on Flickr.
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- Spook Spook Sep 26, 2009 @ 10:50 am
- The first place I ever wanted to visit was 'Surfers.' I've travelled extensively in my youth but still never mad Aus. Hoping to be there in December.









