Bunaken marine park is a mainstay tourist destination Manado, North Sulawesi, and is one of the most beautiful marine park in the world. Various coral reefs and marine life and crammed in Bunaken marine park. For those of you who love the underwater tourism, Bunaken can be one of the options for you.
Geographical location of the Bunaken Marine Park
Bunaken marine park is located in the Village District of Bunaken Bunaken Manado, North Sulawesi. Bunaken is about 7 miles from the port of Manado and can be taken approximately 50 minutes using a twin-engine motor boat or just about 35 minutes if you are using a speed boat.
There are 5 islands that are included in this national park is Naen Island, Bunaken, Manado Tua island, the island Siladen, and Mantehage Island children and their surrounding islands. And the number of those who were in the fifth of the island around 21,000 people.
Bunaken has a wide array of marine life, this is because the national marine park of Bunaken are in the golden triangle of the world's coral reefs are scattered from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands
There are dozens of species of coral and thousands of species of fish that live in the marine park covering an area of 75,265 hectares. The beauty of Bunaken marine park has been in great demand by both domestic travelers and tourists who come from abroad. Most of the coastal area consists of mangrove forests and white sand. Bunaken marine park has a marine biodiversity one of the highest in the world
Sea coral reefs are hard and soft, sheer rock walls with different shapes and colors of marine life including fish are sharks, marlin, tuna, snapper, grouper, barracuda, napoleon wrasse, angel fish, turtles, mandarin fish, sea horses, stingrays, octopus and various other kinds of fish and of course the most famous is the ancient king of sea fish (coelacanth).
There is no time off seasons to visit the Bunaken marine Tamana means you can anytime visit and dive in Bunaken. But more is recommended you dive in Bunaken national park in May s / d in August because at that time you will be greeted with clear sea water and the air is so warm with temperatures 26-31 degrees Celsius.
Spot Diving in Bunaken Marine Park
The beauty of Bunaken marine park can be seen in locations called Lekuan 1, 2, 3, fukui, mandolin, cape parigi, ron's Point, Sachiko Point, Pangalisang, face east village and Bunaken. In addition, there are many more dive spots located in the Bunaken marine park, as Bunaken itself has 40 dive sites varying depths which present different types of tropical fish and coral reefs.
Region which was inaugurated in 1991 as a national marine park also offers another beauty that is the great underwater walls or giant rock wall, which stands curved upwards.
For lovers of underwater photography, we can be sure you will not be disappointed when visiting Bunaken marine park because here you can get spectacular photos to preserve a very rare you get in other areas.
Facilities and Accommodation
For those of you who want to linger to explore Bunaken you do not need to worry because here you will easily meet backpaker lodging ranging from price to quality hotels. In addition, to support your activities during the tour at Bunaken, you can also find a boat rental / seedboat, equipment snorkeling / diving equipment and underwater cameras to capture your activities while under the sea.
Here are some photos and video The beauty of Bunaken Marine Park
The photos above Bunaken marine park is a collection of Manado Fun Trip.
source : www.seputarsulut.com
