Bunaken

Bunaken

As an archipelago, Indonesia has numbers of the spectacular marine park that temps many divers and underwater photographers to visit the country in the first place. By comparison with even the liveliest of temperate-water diving, Indonesia's reefs are a riot of colour, alive with species more familiar from tropical aquaria than from diving experience. As divers all over the country are quick to point out, the country boasts the largest variety of reef fishes to be found in one place anywhere on earth, and it often seems you see all of them on a single dive!. Indonesia's corals are as dazzling and varied as the marine animals they support, there is an endless diversity of coral species, both soft and hard.

Bunaken Marine Park is located in North Sulawesi, the distance of approximately 8 km from the Menado. Menado city is the capital of North Sulawesi, Sulawesi Island.Bunaken Marine Park is a very interesting place for the purpose of recreation for tourists domestic and foreign tourists. It’s a strategic location, can be easily visited by tourists. To visit the marine park, visitors can leave from the beach in the bay Manado. Visitors can use a motor boat rental to go to Bunaken Marine Park. The best season to come to Bunaken Marine Park is in the month of May until August.

Many activities that can be done in the Bunaken Marine Park, such as snorkeling, diving, swimming, sunbathing on the beach, explore the forests around the coast. 

Around Bunaken Marine Park is available homestay facilities, hotels, resorts, motor boat, the tower view, post guards, restaurant, post office, rent equipment for diving, diving instructors. Bunaken Marine Park is the extent of 75,265 hectares and consists of five islands, namely: Bunaken Island, Manado Tua island, Siladen Island, Mantehage Island, Naen Island. Although this marine park consists of five islands that close, only Bunaken Island is famous as the location of dives. As the dive place, Bunaken Marine Park is one of the 10 most popular diving places in the world. Bunaken Marine Park has 20 point dive place, dive depth varies up to 1344 meters. Bunaken Island have 12 point dive place and often visited by tourists and divers.

Bunaken has a formation of coral reefs are very beautiful and wide. Have more than 3000 species of fish that need to be protected from extinction, such as gusumi horse fishhippocampus horse), goropa (ephinephelus spilotoceps), white oci (seriola rivoliana) and many other. Have a rare aquatic organisms such as dolphins, sea cow, dugong-dugong. Has a variety of ornamental fish is beautiful. Has a giant wall of rock that stands vertically and curve upwards. Coral walls are a source of food for the fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.

To protect yourselves from the sea breeze, if a visit to the Bunaken Marine Park will need to bring warm clothing or a jacket, scarf, head cover.Bunaken, lembeh, wakatobi, raja ampat, derawan, alor, komodo, bali, gili islands are some of the most popular destination that very familiar for international divers and under water photographers.