A popular slice of the west coast of the Indonesian Island Bali, Sanur, can offer a cute relaxed atmosphere and competent snorkeling and diving in calm waters that are ideal for recreation with children. By the way, it is here that the main diving center of the island is located, as well as the large entertainment complex Taman Festival Park. All this is supported by a wide range of hotels and Gasthuus of good quality, pretty restaurants and a cafe with open-air tables and with live music. There is much more calm than in Kuta, and you will feel right away.
Sanur Beach stretches for 5 kilometers from Nusa Lemborgan in the north to Mertasari Beach in the south. True, how sweetly describe in some articles is not always true. Sanur is a rocky black beach in the north and strip of a white sandy beach in the south. There's really finely, but there is a lot of algae into the sump.
This, by the way, is a widespread and actively distributed in our travel agencies: Bali is not the most beach resort. That is, it turns out not everywhere to swim here. Yes, the species are beautiful, but the water is mostly dirty and muddy, and also - the strongest flows that are exposed that it would be better to stay under water. So the sanur is no exception. The popular was started somewhere in the hour of the day and did not end until the evening, that is, if you want to swim, it is better to get up early and have time to dinner. With the beginning of a betting, the holidaymakers slowly run away from the beach, and the locals - on the contrary, go fishing (right in clothes and shoes) - then the spectacle!
But the water in Sanur and the truth is shallow. But, nevertheless, it is worth being more closely, letting them go to children some - sometimes not long and confused in these marine plants. And yes, in the insidious waters and in algae there are marine hedgehogs (so do not step on dark areas under water, and even better - they are bathing in sneakers, it will be more used to beat these needles from the heels not particularly nice!). So, sometimes, all those who come here are then to swim with whole days, the elbows bite and are sitting in the pools.
All over the beach, a sanulatory walkway, which is clamped between sand and infinite many hotels, restaurants and massage salons. This is a pleasant place to just wander to get to local attractions to enjoy the gentle sun and sea breeze - and here it is no less convenient to walk with a baby carriage or riding a bike.
Like many other areas of the island, the sanur is striking its amazingly harmonious combination of natural and man-made beauty - rocks, ocean, fragrant colors and mysterious temples. But, like many Beaches Bali, Sanur lost considerable volumes of sandy territories - they were built up at one time. Today, local authorities are trying to preserve what remains. And right! After all, it would be much better! At least sit on comfortable benches of the afternoon and admire the species - one pleasure!
Well, about the sands of the sanora will tell you on every corner (including the masseuses complain): they say that Sanur lost almost all of his sand, and the fact that today there is, it was sent from the western part of Timor.
Sunday - day off for most of the inhabitants of Bali, and some Sunday seems to be that all the permanent population of Bali rushes into the sanur, and in its northern part. Someone may be terribly annoying (they say, but what about the secluded paradise and all that?). But in fact, at the weekend, there is a completely solemn atmosphere - even more merchants of food and juices, even more air coils and, probably, a trillion of motorcycles parked on the roads leading to the beach (and everyone goes, as if, only north Sanur.
The most interesting starts after five, when the Balians are three of them, four of them, and then with dogs on the engine taural trains to the beach and quickly float all the embankment, and, right from their motorcycles, not undressing, jump into the water. Perhaps such a crowd, such a breath of people, it is difficult to see in the New Year holidays on Red Square!
All the battles are monitored by police. They are friendly, like most Balinese, and do not show much interest in tourists. By the way, tourist police work very well on Bali. Therefore, if something happened to you (pah-pah), everything can be resolved, only blowing what you contact this compartment.
The beaches of Sanur are protected by rows of coral reefs, and when the tide happens, the reef "works", forming something like a lagoon: the best time to rent a canoe and ride along the beach within an hour or two. Canoeing This fits two passengers (three too, but already too much). And if the canoe is not your favorite view of water sports, you can always walk under multi-colored sails, which look especially picturesque in a sunny afternoon.
Despite the fact that the sanur is not as a fussy and noisy, like a fashionable seminist or cute, it is still largely filled with tourists. Those who are looking for "Bali Nonuristic" - you will not find it here. This is generally one of the first parts of the beach that began to attract tourists, but today the sanur is especially popular among families with children.
And yes, by midnight, almost all stores, bars and clubs are closed, and a pleasant silence hangs in Sanure. Therefore, Australians jokingly beat the name of the resort of Sanur to the consonant "snore", which means "snoring" - for a slow and sedentary lifestyle, in comparison with their favorite Kuta and Seminyak, which, as you know, do not sleep. And yes, people in sanure are not so cool, young and trendy, as in Seminyak, where the whole surfership color is going, those still teachrs - maybe it is for the better. Sanur Roads are also much calmer.
So, the only noise that you can hear most of the time will be only a rumble of ocean waves attackers on the shores of the island. There are clubs in Sanure, but club life is not particularly developed here. So, clubber and cabbagers are 100% not in sanur. But those who want to qualitatively well (as they say, to the tips of the hair) relax, then, of course, the sanur for these purposes is quite suitable.