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Bunaken – Amazing Underwater Scenery Under The Sea

5 Oct

Bunaken National Park is one of the mainstay tourist destinations of Manado City, North Sulawesi, and is one of the most beautiful marine parks in the world. The park is located in the Coral Triangle, which is a habitat for hundreds of species of coral reefs as well as various types of fish and other marine biota.

The distance from Bunaken from the port of Manado is about 7 miles and can be reached in about 50 minutes if using a double-engine motor boat or only about 35 minutes if using a speed boat. There are 5 islands included in this national park, namely Naen Island, Bunaken Island, Manado Tua Island, Siladen Island, and Mantehage Island along with its surrounding islands.

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Wakatobi – An Exotic Underwater Paradise

5 Oct

Wakatobi National Park, located in Wakatobi Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province.

Wakatobi National Park which was established in 1996, with a total area of ​​1.39 million hectares, concerns marine and coral biodiversity which occupies one of the highest priority positions of marine conservation in Indonesia.

The beauty and richness of the Wakatobi National Park area is actually well known abroad, especially after the Wallacea Expedition from England in 1995 which stated that this area in Southeast Sulawesi was very rich in coral species.

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Three Color Lakes Kelimutu – Flores

6 Mar
Three lakes are so amazing that can change color according to the volcanic activity. Color change that is the main attraction of Lake Kelimutu because these events are very rare in the world. Many Researchers also wanted to examine the miracle.The lake is the world’s known as one of the nine wonders of the world. Three color lakes located in Mount Kelimutu, Flores, NTT. There were three adjacent lakes, but with different colors. The crater lake is Tiwu Ata Polo (red lake), Nua Muri Kooh Fai Tiwu (green lake) and Ata Tiwu Mbupu (blue lake). Lake Kelimutu is the only lake in the world in which the water may change at any time, from red to dark green and then red hearts, dark green to light green, dark brown to blue sky. This natural phenomenon is a miracle. Lake Kelimutu popularized a Dutch citizen named Van Such Telen in 1915. Its beauty the more widely known after the Y. Bouman describe the beauty and color changes in lake water in his writings in 1929.
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Indonesia Underwater Paradise

3 Mar
As an island nation located in the tropics, Indonesia has a lot of marine wealth. One of them is the underwater park, which also is home to diverse marine life. Here are some of the most beautiful underwater park in Indonesia. Indonesia is well known that most property owners on both sea coral reefs or marine animals are so many types and species. many of the researchers came to survey the wealth of underwater Indonesia. not only that the divers would not hold if Indonesia tries to dive into the ocean. One of them is Raja Ampat, despite its location in eastern Indonesia that is more precisely in western Papua bird’s head. Raja Ampat itself is an archipelago consisting of approximately 610 islands with an area of 46 000 square kilometers. Located in the Coral Triangle region and has the highest species diversity in the world. Which are so abundant coral colonies showed that the coral reefs of Raja Ampat will hold the bleaching and disease, which threatens coral reefs kealngsungan live in the world. Large waves also play a role in the spread of coral larvae to the Indian and Pacific oceans that coral reefs can be up to date.
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