Bunaken The Island Divers

Bunaken marine park is the prime tourist destination of Manado, North Sulawesi and is one of the most beautiful marine park in the world. A variety of coral reefs and marine life live and crammed in Bunaken marine park. For those of you who like to travel underwater, bunaken could be one of the preferred places for you.

Bunaken Marine Park is located in the District Sub Bunaken Bunaken Manado, North Sulawesi. Bunaken is about 7 miles from the port of Manado and can be reached about 50 minutes using a motor boat or simply double machined about 35 minutes if you use a speed boat.

There are five islands included in this national park that is Naen Island, Bunaken Island, Manado Tua Island, Siladen Island, and Island Mantehage with their surrounding islands. And the total population is in the fifth island around 21,000 people.

Bunaken has a variety of underwater life, most likely Bunaken Marine Park is located in the golden triangle of the world's reefs are spread from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands


There are dozens of types of coral reefs and thousands of species of fish that live in marine parks covering 75,265 hectares. The beauty of Bunaken Marine Park has been much in demand by both domestic tourists and tourists who come from abroad. Most of the coastal region consists of mangroves and white sand. Bunaken Marine Park has a maritime Biodiversitas one of the highest in the world.

On the sea there is a hard coral and soft, sheer coral walls with a variety of shapes and colors of them are marine life shark, marlin, tuna, snapper, grouper, barracuda, napoleon, angel fish, turtles, mandarin fish, seahorses, stingrays, octopus and a variety of other fish and of course the most famous ancient king of sea fish (the coelacanth).

There is no time off seasons to visit the Bunaken Marine Tamana means that you can visit at any time and dive in Bunaken. But the more organized you are diving in Bunaken Marine Park in May s / d August because at that time you will be greeted by crystal clear waters and so warm the air temperature 26-31 degrees Celsius.


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 dive spots are located in the Bunaken marine park, as Bunaken itself has 40 dive sites varying depths that provide various types of tropical fish and coral reefs.

The area was established 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.

For those of you who want to linger explore Bunaken you do not need to worry because here you will easily meet accommodation ranging from price to quality backpaker star hotels. In addition, to support your activities during the tour at Bunaken, you can also find a boat rental place / seedboat, tools snorkeling / diving equipment and underwater cameras to capture your activities while under the sea.