Bunaken is an area of 8.08 km ² island in the Bay of Manado, located in the northern island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. This island is part of the city of Manado, the provincial capital of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Around the island there Bunaken Bunaken marine park which is part of Manado Tua Marine National Park. This marine park has a marine biodiversity one of the highest in the world. Scuba diving attracts many visitors to the island. Overall Bunaken marine park covers an area of 75,265 hectares with five islands within it, namely the island of Manado Tua, Bunaken Island, Island Siladen, Mantehage Island follows several children his island, and island Naen. Although covering an area of 75,265 hectares, the location of the dive (diving) is limited in each of the five beaches that surround the island.
Bunaken marine park has a 20 point dive (dive spot) with varying depth of up to 1344 meters. Of the 20 diving points, 12 points among them diving around Bunaken Island. Twelve point dive is the most frequently visited by divers and lovers of the beauty of underwater scenery.
Most of the 12 point dive in Bunaken Island lined up from the southeast to the northwest of the island. In this region there are underwater great walls, which is also called the hanging walls, or a giant rock walls that stand vertically and curved upward. These rock walls are also a source of food for fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.
How to reach the location:
Can the Port of Manado, Marina Nusantara Diving Centre (NDC) in the District of Molas, and from the Marina Blue Banter.
From Port of Manado, we can use a motor boat to the island Siladen with travel time about 20 minutes, Bunaken Island 30 minutes, 50 minutes Montehage Island, and Island Nain 60 minutes. While the Marina Blue Banter, we can use the available cruises to the area of tourism in Bunaken Island and takes about 10-15 minutes, while from the Port of NDC to the dive sites of Bunaken Island can menggunakanspeed boat with about 20 minutes travel time.
Every visitor who enters the area of Bunaken Marine Park ticket charge of Rp50 thousand. Rates are valid both for visitors who want to dive or not to dive. In addition to regular tickets, there are also tickets valid for one year with the price of 150 thousand. Visitors who purchase an annual ticket will be given a kind of special badges made of plastic as free passes TLNB.
Tourists who intend to spend the night there could choose a place to stay that consists of various resorts and homestay. There is also the following dive equipment rental services instructors to teach visitors dive. Diving instructor who is on an average TLNB have mastered foreign languages like English, German, Dutch, and French
Area of the island is only 8 km away, but extraordinarily beautiful marine park. In it there are many rare marine life.
Imagine, in this world there are only 8 species of giant clams and seven of them contained in Bunaken. In addition there is a finger-sized marine animals are adult sea horses, there are grouper, sea snails, and other marine animals that add to the beauty of Bunaken.
Besides the animals mentioned above, there are about 3000 species are very difficult to mention one by one, with all sorts of shapes and colors are stunning. But the names of the popular marine animals are fish lolosi yellow, fish ila trunk, white oci Fish, fish, horses gusumi, garopa fish, mollusks, and others. You all can enjoy the beauty of Bunaken it by snorkeling.
Do not worry if you are not proficient in snorkeling or scuba diving, there are many instructors who will guide and help you enjoy the beauty of Bunaken.
Things to be grateful when I saw the beauty of Bunaken are much sought after by foreign tourists so that this increasingly popular tourist attractions. Because of the popularity it makes many local officials are intrigued to restore the beauty of their sea and explore the potential beauty of the sea with the guard and open up new tourism arena.
By default this is increasingly arousing tourism in Indonesia and a field of sustenance for the Indonesian people and the community generally in that area in particular.
Residents around the area of Bunaken itself is very well aware that cleanliness and beauty of Bunaken is a valuable asset that must be maintained. Therefore, they try to keep the clean sea and beaches, littered with garbage and other things that can damage coral reefs.
The island is located northwest of the city of Manado, has a diversity of life that is very large, because these islands are places where plankton which is the food of all marine creatures rise to the surface. Because of the large amount of plankton that rises to the top surface of the ocean, many marine organisms that choose this place as home. Snorkler and divers can see 70% -80% of marine species in the world, seven of eight species of giant clams can be ketemukan in Bunaken.
The beauty of Bunaken on 5 Meter
The beauty of the coral reefs of Bunaken Island is also still very good. They do not undergo a process of bleaching or coral bleaching, the effects of el-nino storm so that the color and its beauty is maintained. In addition to natural factors, the condition of reefs in Bunaken also guard by citizens on patrol around tirelessly to preserve the integrity of this marine park. They realize, without a healthy coral reefs, they will lose a good livelihood. Bunaken marine park's success is now followed by all the marine parks are popping up in Indonesia.
The beauty of Bunaken At 15 meters
In Bunaken, the tourists can see a lot of things that rarely can be seen as:
Pygmy Seahorse: horse sea horse sea is very unique. The size of the sea horse is only for finger nail, and usually resembles a pink house in gorgonians sea fans. This sea horse will always resemble the color of the sea horse home to escape pursuit by their predators such as groupers.
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