About

Puraran was a quiet little fishing village until 1984 when Australian surfer Peter Sutton riding on his big motorbike in search of a surf spot came upon this village and discovered “the wave with the perfect barrel”. Looking for a place to stay, he met the family of Mr. Rudy & Cecilia Soria both teachers in the village school and stayed with the family in their little bungalow in front of the school for months, with his Japanese wife Sally.

A few months later, 2 Japanese surfers and Canadian Dale Sorachen came. Then more Japanese came and started buying lands from the village people. Cecilia’s father Jorge Jacob Estrada, recognizing the potential of tourism in this village refused to sell his land. With intense encouragement from Peter Sutton, Cecilia sought permission from his father to build a few cottages on his father’s land along the beach and buying that piece of that land eventually (to become the present site of Puraran Surf Beach Resort). Around the same time, the Japanese corporation HAROGEN started constructing the Puraran Beach Resort.

Words spread about the new discovered surfing paradise and surfers from around the Globe came pouring in. In 1986, before the onslaught of Typhoon Sisang in 1987, Hawaiin photographer WARREN BOLSTER from Surfer Magazine came, along with the popular Hawaiian professional surfers John Shimooka, Matt Mondragon and Tony Moniz. Amazed by the perfect barrelled form of the waves and enchanted by the sunrise shining on the long white and empty shore of Puraran, Warren Bolster featured the place in the Surfer Magazine calling the place “MAJESTICS” with its majestic waves.