We have spent the past few days relaxing and exploring some of the different restaurants near our villa at the North end of Sanur. We are right up near the top of the main street Jalan Danau Tamblingan and close to the beach (see blue dot on map).
We are staying at Ajanta Villas which we booked through booking . com for about $200 AUD a night. The group of villas is very quiet and each has its own pool. We can exit via a back entrance and walk 50m through a local market for direct access to the beach. It’s an older style villa so wooden furniture, tiled floors and older bathroom fittings with our villa having a separate bedroom and living area / kitchen. I am pretty much living in the private pool and am probably part mermaid by now! I can never go back to shared pools now haha. Some things to be aware of are you do need to walk through the marker to get to the beach / beach restaurants and they hassle you a bit….plus I can see it might be a bit creepy at night. We also have fireworks and dogs barking until about 10pm at night, all of which is very manageable.
Day 4 was another pool day with brekkie at a local Warung called Little Owl (breakfast bowl was delicious!) and dinner at Lilla Warung.
On day 5 we did a beach day! We went to Memories on Sanur Beach where you can get a sun lounge with a 100000IDR minimum spend ($10 AUD) as well as access to their pool and bar service. We had lunch, cocktails, swam in the ocean and relaxed on the sun lounge for a few hours. After dinner we wandered up and down the Sanur waterfront trying a few different venues. If is definitely very quiet here and lots of places are basically staffed by 12 people with 1-2 customers at this time of year.
After lounging by the beach all day, we wandered 2.5kms down the beach walk to Lilla Pantai for dinner. This was a better experience for B after his less positive experience the night before at their sister restaurant closer to our villa.
On the way back we stopped at the Tree Bar at Maya Sanur resort which was beautiful. Very, very pricey but a gorgeous view.
Day 6 was another pool day (definitely embracing villa life) and reading. It felt a lot more humid today so we haven’t ventured too far. We had lunch at Warung Happy Monkey which was some really tasty Indonesian food and went to the supermarket in the brand new, very flash icon Mall. We walked about 2kms to Taqisa for dinner. After dinner we had the famous Massimos gelato! No line for us although apparently people queue for hours for it…which seems a bit ridiculous.
Tomorrow is my birthday and we are off on an adventure!
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