[ beach path · morning cyclists ]
The beach path
Five paved kilometres from Mertasari to the pier. Rent bikes at the villa and ride it before breakfast.
The destination
Sanur, the sunrise side of Bali.
A fishing village that became Bali's first resort town, and then quietly stayed itself.
Sanur sits on the south-east coast, facing Nusa Penida across a reef lagoon. The water is calm enough for children; the beach path runs five kilometres past temples, warungs and the old Bali Beach Hotel. Mornings belong to joggers and fishermen, evenings to the night market.
It is twenty minutes from the airport, thirty by fast boat to Nusa Lembongan, and an hour to Ubud. Most guests find they leave less than they planned to.
[ Pura Blanjong · offerings ]
Temples & ceremony
Blanjong holds Bali's oldest inscription. Ceremonies still close the beach road a few times a month; we'll tell you when.
[ Sindhu night market · satay ]
Eating
Sindhu night market for satay and babi guling, Jalan Danau Tamblingan for everything else. We keep a short list of places we'd send our own families.
Getting here, getting around
- Airport
- 20 minutes by car. Transfers are included with every villa.
- Islands
- Fast boats to Nusa Lembongan (30 min) and Nusa Penida (45 min) leave from Sanur harbour.
- Ubud
- An hour north. We arrange drivers by the day.
- Locally
- Bicycles, scooters, and the beach path. Most of Sanur is a ten-minute ride.