Visit Bunaken National Marine Park in Manado, North Sulawesi.

Bunaken Beach, Manado.

 Bunaken National Park is a marine park in Bunaken island, North Sulawesi.The park is located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, providing habitat to 390 species of coral as well as many fish, mollusc, reptile and marine mammal species.The status as a National Park was formally established in 1991 and is among the first of Indonesia's marine parks.

Old Manado Mount, Across Manado.

The marine park covers a total area of 890.65 km², 97 percent of which is marine habitat while the remaining 3 percent of the park is land, consisting the five islands of Bunaken, Manado Tua, Mantehage, Nain and Siladen.Bunaken marine park located about 7 miles from the port of Manado and can be reached in 30 minutes by fast boat.

The beauty of Bunaken marine park could no doubt for tourists who like diving, snorkeling and surfing. It is not complete without a visit to the city of Manado visited tourist sites on this one. In other words Bunaken marine park is an obligatory destination for tourists who visit the city of Manado.

This island you can see the beauty of the underwater world that can please your eyes as well as refreshing your mind, various coral reefs of various shapes, and various types of marine life such as turtles, mandarin fish, seahorses, stingrays, and if you're lucky you can see the ancient king of ocean fish (the coelacanth) and many other marine life

• Siladen

In the marine garden, other tourist attractions you can visit is the island of Siladen. The beauty of Siladen is not less than to the beauty of Bunaken Island. Siladen located on the northeast of the island of Bunaken and can be gone for about 45 minutes by boat. The island area of 31.25 ha is surrounded by white sandy beaches and of course the underwater scenery is decorated with various kinds of coral reefs and marine life of different shapes and colors.

• Manado Tua

Manado Tua is the largest island among the group of islands within the limits of Manado bay. To reach the island which is about 10 miles from downtown Manado, you have to travel about 60 minutes by boat. This island there are volcanoes towering trees and overgrown green and leafy. Not much different to the Bunaken marine park and Siladen, the waters in this area has spectacular underwater panorama.

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Bunaken, North Sulawesi

Bunaken is an island of 8.08 km² at Manado Bay, situated in the north of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. This Island is part of Manado city, the capital city of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Sea Park in Bunaken Island is as part of National Park of Old Manado Ocean.

In this Bunaken Sea Park, visitors can see various marine lives at the bottom of Bunaken Sea. To reach this park, you can go by sea transportation like motor boat. Visitors are charged 25,000 rupiahs per person for one visit. The trip to Bunaken Sea Park Location from Manado City takes 40 minutes by motor boat.

Bunaken Island is easily reached from Manado by motorized outrigger boat, departing from Manado harbor, Molas, Kalasey and Tasik Ria beaches. The public boats from Manado to Bunaken are leaving daily around 2 p.m (depending on tide), except Sundays, from Pasar Jengki near Manado harbor. Back from Bunaken to Manado usually early in the morning, around 7-8 a.m

There are also chartered boats scheduled to depart in the morning and return in the late afternoon. These are usually reserved for travel packages offered by agents or even hotels.

Most diving takes place near Bunaken and Manado Tua, because of their many excellent sites. The following is the diving area:

• Lekuan Walls (I, II, III)
• Mandolin
• Bunaken Timor
• Tanjung Kopi
• Siladen Island
• Muka Gereja
• Barracuda Point
• Manado Wreck

Other than diving-enthusiasts, ornithologists and amateur bird-watchers might find visiting Tangkoko Dua Sudara Nature Reserve entertaining. here is the map of Bunaken and the diving spots.

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