Lampuuk Beach is one of the prime tourist Greater Aceh prior to the tsunami in 2004. The beach is always crowded with visitors, both from Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, or other areas. With white sand and shady pine trees, this place becomes an ideal place to relieve fatigue.

When the tsunami, the beach is located approximately 15 kilometers from Banda Aceh, including that suffered considerable damage. The hotels are located on the waterfront and surrounding settlements destroyed a large wave slammed.

More than half of Lampuuk died in the disaster. The trauma of the tsunami threat makes baseball community to come to this beach, in addition to the many pine trees uprooted and debris leftover tsunami. It is time to make this beach closed to tourism activities. .

However, gradually the beach was also recovered. Approximately one year after the tsunami, the tourism activity on this beach was again crowded. In the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction following the tsunami, Lampuuk beach management integrated with several other attractions in Aceh, like Pulau Weh, Lake Laut Tawar, and Plateau Takengon.

This is a positive influence on the efforts to restore the image as a prime tourist spot Lampuuk Beach Aceh. Not only local tourists, many NGO activists and foreign volunteers who stopped to tour the coast, especially surfing, also boost the popularity of this beach. Currently, travel Lampuuk Beach can be said to have recovered to pre-tsunami.