--- ---  # This Stunning Drone Footage of Island Surfers Will Make You Desperately Want a Vacation by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 31, 2014 9:11 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 31, 2014 9:11 PM UTC Can’t take a vacation right now, because of silly obstacles like your job or money or your kids or fear of flying? Well, [this video](http://vimeo.com/99275308) is _kind_ of like a little vacation in itself. It features drone footage captured in the gorgeous Mentawai Islands of Indonesia and comes complete with soothing but upbeat music. So grab your headphones and allow yourself a five-minute escape from it all. ([h/t Boing Boing](http://boingboing.net/2014/10/31/watch-hypnotic-drone-footage.html)) Drone Footage Shows Surfers in Indonesian Mentawai Islands: Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/"},"headline":"This Stunning Drone Footage of Island Surfers Will Make You Desperately Want a Vacation","datePublished":"2014-10-31T21:11:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:15.965Z","description":"Taken in Indonesia's gorgeous Mentawai Islands","url":"https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","indonesia","World","Drones","Surfing","vacation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e3efa7e2fb5fdd/698763cb55a859463fa838a3/screen-shot-2014-10-31-at-4-48-45-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e3efa7e2fb5fdd/698763cb55a859463fa838a3/screen-shot-2014-10-31-at-4-48-45-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-10-31 at 4.48.45 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/","name":"This Stunning Drone Footage of Island Surfers Will Make You Desperately Want a Vacation"}}]}] ```