Sanur Area, Bali, Indonesia

Beach Parking at North end of Sanur

It was overcast and threatening rain most of the time I was at Sanur

The only monstrous hotel

Outriggers

Bow of outrigger

Modern Gym Equipment on the Beach

Sanur is a tourism intense area along Badung Strait on the south east coast of Bali (which is in the India Ocean) and is 7 km from central Denpasar. Sanur beach was the site of the Dutch invasion in 1906. 

In the rainy season beach weather is rather iffy.  Early in the morning I walked one way and in mid morning as it started to rain caught a Bemo back Denpasar. 

There are many upscale resorts here but they are fairly unobtrusive as they are well set back from the beach and all (except one highrise) are low profile. By mid morning Dec 31 there were very few tourists in sight. So either bookings are down or people were still inside. The exception seemed to be the far northern, poorer end of the beach which looked to be frequented by 'local' families. The beach itself is fairly expansive and a fair amount of garbage as it appears the sand is not raked or machine cleaned. Some hotels do rake areas immediately in front of them.

All in all not a bad beach and good coffee shops. But in my opinion this beach and, any other I have seen can't hold a candle to Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico.

I am composing this post 1 Jan 2012 when it is very quiet throughout Denpasar. It must be their quietest day of the year. I purchased a bus ticket today for travel on Tuesday to the north coast.

By the way day temps without the rain have been running 37 degrees. Very high humidex in mornings and rain in the afternoon