Things to Do in Sanur: 7 Unique Places in Sanur with Their Own Beauty

Things to Do in Sanur: 7 Unique Places in Sanur with Their Own Beauty

Sanur is one of the best and the oldest Bali tourism destinations. You can find lots of things to do in Sanur. Want to try it? You will never ever regret if you visit Sanur. Here are some references of the things to do in Sanur. Have a great holiday friends!

1. Sanur Beaches: Kites Festival and Sunrise Panorama

The Bali’s charms are limitless. Each corner of this island is worth to explore and visit. This time, we have Sanur to be explored. This region is in the south-eastern side of Bali. Similar with any other tourism in Bali, Sanur has some beautiful beaches that will please your interest. One of them is Sanur Beaches. For your information, Sanur Beaches consist of several beaches because they have the same coastline. However, there are two names of beaches that have incredible attractions; Padanggalak Beach and Pantai Matahari Terbit or Sunrise Beach.

Padanggalak Beach is famous with its annual festival of kites. If you want to come or join this festival, you can come around July to August. Between these months is the windy season so it is perfect for playing kites. The name of this festival is Bali Kites Festival. Most of participants (usually local people) use traditional kites that have decorated with colorful and pretty design; nevertheless, international teams are joining this festival as well. They bring their modern kite with magnificent design. Sunrise Beach is the opposite beach of Kuta Beach. Based on its name, this beach is famous with its beautiful sunrise panorama. When you book a room in hotel near Sanur Beach, you can watch the pure beauty of sunrise panorama in the morning.

 

2. Urban Tour: Taman Festival Park

Do you like urban story? And every time you visit new place, you insist to find then hear an iconic urban story of its place? Indonesia, especially Bali, has tons of these kinds of story. Hearing the story sometimes is not enough and if it is possible, having urban tour would be a challenging activity. When you come to Sanur, you can have this urban tour. You can visit the abandoned theme park which its name is Taman Festival Park.

This park had been abandoned for more than 15 years and those durations create a mystic atmosphere around Taman Festival Park. The park is quiet large with many of empty building. However, the most popular buildings are the theatre and crocodile park. Once you enter the theatre, the horror vibes will welcome you spookily together with a wide dirty watcher seat and dark building. The second horror place is crocodile park. Many local people say that after abandoning, the crocodile in this place became wild. Even though some people gave live chicken for them, the crocodile strangely turn into cannibal. It is better for you to avoid this place due to the wild crocodiles. Even it is just a rumor but better to avoid than having a real terror of the crocodile right?

 

3. Zula Vegetarian Paradise: For Better Taste and Health

Vegan life style is not common in Indonesia and many of Indonesian cuisines use meat (chicken, beef, pork and very things) for the main ingredients. For vegetarian tourists, don’t worry about it because plenty of vegan restaurants spread all over Bali, especially in Sanur, you can find vegie restaurant called Zula Vegetarian Paradise. This place is dedicated for vegan who have trip in Bali. It has two branches; in Seminyak and Sanur. They cook the food carefully and with a great calculation so the food will taste great and healthy. Zula Vegetarian Paradise use high quality fresh and organic ingredients and cook them without any artificial seasoning and MSG. This place is worth to visit as the things to do in Sanur especially for vegan and healthy life style people.

 

4. Bali Sharks in Serangan Island: Direct Interaction with Baby Shark Doo Doo Doo

Bali Sharks in Serangan Island is the conservation program and place for endangered baby and grown up sharks. This is a common fact that sharks are being hunted for their fin. People believe that shark fin has medical effect and they hunt the fin to cook it.

Bali Sharks help and protect the pitiful baby sharks from irresponsible illegal hunter. When you come to this conservation place you can enjoy the eco-tour provides by Bali Sharks. You can have three different activities for three hours tour. The first one is shark feeding. You can try to give some food for the baby sharks and feel the thrilling when the sharks eat the food from your hand. If feeding them is not enough, swimming together will be a great real interaction with sharks. Shark is wild fish that famous with its aggressive behavior, but no need to worry because all the sharks will not attack you unless you make any sudden movement. In Bali Sharks, everything is safe. Even when you swimming together with the baby sharks, the guide will watch you out.

 

5. Dream Island Bali: Amazing Photo Spot

One of things to do in Sanur is photo shoot. With its beautiful nature landscape, Sanur becomes one of the best photo shoot in Bali. Bali Snapshot Photography Tour will give you such a better experience to capture every single attractive side of Bali. Dream Island Bali in Sanur is the place with beautiful landscape for you who love photography. Located in Mertasari Beach, Dream Island becomes a true imaginary island that pops up from your dream. The main attraction of this island is the huge wooden swing in the middle of the beach. Many visitors are queening just for taking photo in here with the ocean background. Besides the wooden swing, mangrove trunks are the best photo spot in here. For couples who want to take pre-wedding photo, this spot is recommended place for you to take romantic photo.

6. Le Mayeur Museum

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958) is Belgian artist who lived in Bali for about 24 years and married with local Balinese dancer Ni Polok. When he arrived in Bali in 1932, he lived in Sanur and painted many beautiful pictures related with Balinese women. The object of Le Mayeur painting mostly was Ni Polok, his wife. Once you come to this museum, the Balinese traditional architecture will satisfy your eyes with perfect decorations. Not only Balinese women paintings you can see in Le Mayeur Museum, but also some of his works when he explored Africa, India, the Mediterranean and South Pacific. Le Mayeur Museum will fill your trip with educational value as your things to do in Sanur.

7. Big Garden Corner: Cheap Yet Impressive Place

Big Garden Corner in Sanur is a new tourism destination place. This place offers a wide stone sculpture garden and green park. Various artistic stone sculpture spotted in strategic location for taking selfie or ordinary photo shot. However, the ticket entrance is only IDR 25.000 and with this you can get a soft drink/gelato. Impressive! If you seek for a little heavier dish, there is a restaurant that serves you with many kinds of delicious foods and beverages.