The original backpacker beach. Although it is now moving more upmarket. There are only four places to stay actually on the beach itself. Most accommodation is a few minutes walk south in a busy built up area. This is also home to a lot of cheap guesthouses and huts. But the area is moving more upmarket with Nest Sense and Warapura Resort being the picks of places to stay. And Oasis and Little Eden being very popular with 'flashpackers'.
Lonely Beach has become the backpacker hub and the party centre of the island. Situated far down the south west coast, up and and over a mountain, it is split into two parts, the beach section running for a few hundred metres from the bottom of the mountain, and a kilometre or so further along, the village section, laid out along the main street, with two sois running off it down to the rocky seafront.