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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Bunaken Marine Park - Sulawesi, Indonesia


Bunaken is an island with an area of ​​8.08 km ² in the Bay of Manado, North Sulawesi Province. This island is part of the city of Manado, North Sulawesi provincial capital. Around the island there Bunaken marine park that is part of the Bunaken National Marine Park of Manado Tua. Bunaken marine park as a whole covers an area of ​​75 265 hectares to the five islands within it, namely the island of Manado Tua, Bunaken Island, Siladen Island, Island Mantehage follows several children of his island, and island Naen.

Lovers of diving, which must be satisfied at least have 40 Bunaken dive sites that present different types of tropical fish and coral reefs. One of these coral species live, in the form of fringing reefs and barrier. Attracted the most attention are the coral reefs tebung vertically extending along 50 meters. This type of large fish such as marlin, tuna, rays, display, tuna, barracuda, shark hammer heads sometimes stop in these waters. Understandably, the damage to the Bunaken National Park is relatively lower than other marine parks that are spread in Indonesia. This makes it more unique than the Bunaken lain.Pesona Natural sights Bunaken Underwater Nature has attracted many foreign tourists to come back and enjoy its beauty, that's unfortunate is the lack of promotion and dissemination of its existence, so not much to produce and contribute to generate foreign exchange reserves for our country.

Bunaken National Park is representative of Indonesia's tropical aquatic ecosystem consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems. It is said that the natural reefs and beautiful underwater world.

At least, Bunaken National Park has 40 diving places that are rich with tropical fish and coral reefs. As written wisatamelayu.com, visitors can dive and see the beauty of more than 150 species of 58 genera of fish and coral reefs in the region.

The area is inaugurated as a national marine park since 1991, it also offers other beauty that is the great underwater reef walls or walls of a giant who stood vertically and curved upward. In the food chain, rock wall serves as a food source for fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.

Bunaken has a diversity of marine life is very diverse, because of the Bunaken marine park located in the triangle of the world's coral reefs are scattered from Indonesia, Malaysia, phillipine, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Here you can see 70% of fish species in the world in the Bunaken marine park, and this figure does not include deep-sea fish.

Bunaken Marine Park is located about 1.5 km from the city of Manado. To go to Bunaken, you can through the port of Manado, Marina Nusantara Diving Centre in District Molas, and from the Marina Blue Banter. From Manado harbor, you can use a motor boat to the island Siladen takes about 20 minutes, 30 minutes to Bunaken Island, the island Montehage 50 minutes, and the island of Nain 60 minutes.

While the Marina Blue Banter, you can use the yacht available to the tourist areas on the island of Bunaken and takes about 10-15 minutes, while from the Port of Nusantara Diving Centre to the dive sites in Bunaken Island could use a speed boat with about 20 minutes travel time. Every visitor who enters the Bunaken Marine Park tickets are charged Rp. 50 thousand. Rates are valid both for visitors who want to dive or not to dive. In addition to regular tickets, no tickets are valid for one year at a price of 150 thousand. Visitors who purchase season tickets will be given a sort of special badges made of plastic as a sign of Bunaken National Park entrance.











Bunaken Marine Park - Sulawesi, Indonesia

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