Bunaken Marine National Park lies in North Sulawesi and is ± 8 km from the mainland city of Manado. Its location is strategic enough to make it easier for marine parks visited by tourists both from domestic and from abroad.
Bunaken Marine National Park is one-one recreational destination that was quite interesting for tourists both domestic and overseas tourists.
Activities that can be done in the Bunaken Marine National Park is like sunbathing on the beach, sea swimming, diving (diving), snorkeling, exploring the forests around the coast.
Overall Bunaken Marine National Park has an area of 75,265 hectares area in which there are five islands, namely Pulau Bunaken, Manado Tua Island, Island Siladen, Mantehage Island along some of its islands and the last child Naen Island. Although this marine park has five islands are close together, only the most famous Bunaken Island as dive sites.
Bunaken area in 1991 was inaugurated as a national marine park by the Minister of Marine and become the object of marine tourism and education because they saw the potential of natural and marine ecology conservation activities of this region. In addition to conducting tours, the park is very good for the development of educational knowledge of adults and children about the marine and natural resources.
Bunaken Marine National Park is one of the most beautiful marine park in the world, famous for its coral formations are very beautiful and spacious. This marine park habitats in more than 3000 species of fish that need to be guarded from extinction as lolosi yellow tail fish (Lutjanus kasmira), fish gusumi horse (hippocampus and horses), goropa (ephinephelus spilotoceps), white oci (seriola rivoliana) and many others as well have a diversity of aquatic organisms are rare species such as dolphins, sea cow, dugong-dugong and also have various kinds of ornamental fish are very beautiful.
Bunaken Marine National Park has a wide enough area to do diving, dive sites remain nevertheless limited only around the beaches that surround the fifth island, this is done for the safety of visitors and to facilitate staff in overseeing the beach visitors.
Visitors can dive and watch the tropical fish and stunning coral reefs and beautiful so that guaranteed visitors will be amazed to see and can not be forgotten.
A place for diving, Bunaken Marine National Park are among the world's 10 most popular diving spot.
There are 20 points where the dive (dive spot) with varying depth of up to 1344 meters area of this marine park. Of the 20 point dive, the 12 points which was located near Bunaken Island, and most often visited by divers and tourists.
Marine natural phenomena that exist in the Bunaken Marine National Park is unique and almost certainly not be found in other marine parks. This marine park has a distinctness of the giant rock walls that stand vertically and curved upwards or called underwater great walls or hanging walls. These rock walls are also a source of food for the fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.
- To access the Bunaken Marine National Park
- Facilities Available
There is also an equipment rental services along diving instructors.
- Best time to visit the Bunaken Marine National Park
- The Mandatory Equipment Carried
- Attention Must Be
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