--- title: Drone Footage Shows Surfers in Indonesian Mentawai Islands: Video description: Taken in Indonesia's gorgeous Mentawai Islands canonical: https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-31T21:11:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:15.965Z og:title: This Stunning Drone Footage of Island Surfers Will Make You Desperately Want a Vacation og:description: Taken in Indonesia's gorgeous Mentawai Islands og:url: https://time.com/3551874/drone-footage-surfers-mentawai-islands-indonesia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e3efa7e2fb5fdd/698763cb55a859463fa838a3/screen-shot-2014-10-31-at-4-48-45-pm.png?branch=production&width=817&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 817 og:image:height: 460 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-31 at 4.48.45 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Stunning Drone Footage of Island Surfers Will Make You Desperately Want a Vacation twitter:description: Taken in Indonesia's gorgeous Mentawai Islands twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39e3efa7e2fb5fdd/698763cb55a859463fa838a3/screen-shot-2014-10-31-at-4-48-45-pm.png?branch=production&width=817&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 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)) ```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"}}]}] ```