Mark, somewhere on the Sanur beach path with a coffee, as usual.

I'm Mark, one half of Things To Do In Sanur. Along with my wife Bec, I've been coming back to Sanur for over a decade — and this site is where we share everything we've learned, from the best breakfast spots and markets to where to stay and which day trips are actually worth it.

Bec and I are small-town Aussies who've been travelling together for over 26 years and have visited more than 45 countries, almost always while working full-time jobs rather than as digital nomads with endless time. Bali — and Sanur in particular — is the place we keep coming back to. Nearly everything on this site comes out of trips we've actually taken: the hotel we stayed in, the warung we ate at, the market we got up at dawn to visit, the day trip we booked and did ourselves.

I grew up in a small country town a couple of hours east of Melbourne and still live in regional Victoria today. I'm self-taught — no background in web design, writing or SEO, just a lot of years figuring it out by trial and error while working full-time. Blogging started back in 2016 and grew from there. On this site, I handle most of the writing and the reviews; Bec edits and co-writes, and she's the one who hunts down the best breakfasts and knows the Sanur markets inside out.

What I write about on this site

Mostly the practical, first-hand stuff that actually helps you plan a trip to Sanur: honest hotel and accommodation reviews, where to eat and drink, the markets and shopping, and day trips from Sanur that are worth your time. If a hotel's breakfast is overrated or a "must-do" is really a tourist trap, I'd rather tell you than repeat what everyone else has copied from everyone else.

A few examples of that approach:

• Best breakfast in Sanur — nine cafés we actually eat at, with what to order
• The Sanur Morning Market — a local's guide to Pasar Sindhu, and why you need to go early
• The best day trips from Sanur — islands, waterfalls, temples and volcanoes, with honest advice on each

How we work

We book and pay for most of what we review ourselves. Where a post includes an affiliate link, it's disclosed, and it never changes what we actually say about a hotel, a café or a day trip. If something wasn't good enough, we say so.

I'm not a travel agent or a journalist. I'm a traveller who's spent a lot of time in Sanur, who checks things first-hand and with our Balinese friends on the ground, and who'd rather tell you a market is a rip-off than pretend everything's perfect.

Elsewhere

I've been part of Travel Massive, the global travel industry community, since 2015. Travelpayouts interviewed me in 2024 about how blogging and affiliate marketing actually work for a family of self-taught Australians doing it alongside full-time jobs. FeedSpot ranked Bec and me in their Top 70 Australian Family Travel Influencers for 2026, ABC News featured our family travels in 2021, and we've written for Klook on their own blog — about our Nusa Penida day trip, which you can do straight from Sanur. We’ve also partnered with brands including Discovery Parks, who featured our family on their site.

Watch instead of read

A lot of what we cover comes with video too, filmed on the day. Subscribe on our TikTok to see the hotel rooms, the food and the honest reactions that don't always make it into the written post.

Other places we write

Things To Do In Sanur isn't the only thing we run. Depending on where you're headed, these might be useful too:

• Street Eats & Window Seats — hotels, flights, street food and practical travel tech
• Wyld Family Travel — family travel from the Wyld household, our original site since 2016

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