Man, I'm so mad what they did to Sanur. There used to be this long set of stalls along the beach walk, and it was great fun. And now it's gone, in the name of the sterilized and "sanitized" hotel down the walk. My partner and I went to that hotel to have lunch, and my god, just listening to the conversations of the tourists who had no idea of the actual culture or people of Bali, just drove us crazy.
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Same. When I first went to Bali in 1994 it was comparatively untouched by tourism, even though it was already a tourist destination for Australians and travellers, it had retained it's own cultural identity.
The last time that I went was in 2009. It was sad to see that Sanur was now essentially a beach resort with an enormous shopping complex, just like any other you could visit anywhere else in the world. Kuta was the same.
There were still places you could go if you traveled outside the southern part of the island, places that had been touched less by tourism. That was 16 years ago though. I imagine in that time it has continued to change just as much as in the first 15 years that I visited the island.