The Beauty Of Bunaken Marine Park-North Sulawesi

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Bunaken is an Island with an area of 8,08 km ² in the Bay of Manado, North Sulawesi Province. The island is part of the city of Manado, capital of North Sulawesi province. Around the Bunaken marine park which is part of the Bunaken National Park Marine Manado Tua. Overall Bunaken marine park covers an area of 75.265 hectares with five islands that are in it, namely the island of Manado Tua, Bunaken Island , Siladen Island, Mantehage Island following some of the island, and Naen Island.

Lovers of divingin Bunaken, definitely the least sated has 40 dive which presents different types of tropical fish and coral reefs. One type of living coral, coral reefs and the edge of the barrier. Most caught my attention is the coral reef tebung vertical stretching along the 50 meters. This type of big fish such as marlin, tuna, rays, screen, skipjack tuna, Barracuda, sharks head sometimes transited through these waters. Understandably, the relative damage Bunaken National Park compared to lower other marine parks are spread in Indonesia. This makes it more unique than Bunaken tourist attractions etc.The Natural charm of the underwater Realm has been much sought after tourist Bunaken overseas to come and enjoy its beauty, unfortunate is the lack of promotion and dissemination of its existence so that not a lot of produce and contribute to generating foreign exchange reserves for our country.

Bunaken National Park is representative of Indonesia's tropical waters ecosystems consist of forest ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass, coral reefs, and mainland coastal ecosystem/. Supposedly the coral reefs and underwater natureof his most beautiful in the world.

At least, Bunaken national Park has 40 places of diving rich tropical fishes and coral reefs. Such written wisatamelayu.com, visitors can dive and witness the beauty of more than 150 species of 58 the genus fishes and coral reefs in the region.

The area was established as a national marine park since 1991 it also offers other i.e. the underwater beauty of the great walls or wall reef giant standing vertical and curved upwards. In the food chain, coral walls that serves as a source of food for fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.

Bunaken marine life diversity has a very diverse, due to the Bunaken Marine Park is located in the Coral triangle worlds scattered from Indonesia, Malaysia, phillipine, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the Solomon Islands. Here you can see the 70% of the species of fish in the world in the Bunaken Marine Park, and this figure does not include the fish in the sea.

Park Bunaken sea is located 1.5 km from the lies about the city of Manado. To go to Bunaken, you can through the port of Manado, Indonesia Diving Centre in the Marina District, and the Molas of the Marina Blue Banter. From the port of Manado, you can use the boat toward the island, Siladen with travel time of about 20 minutes, to the island of Bunaken Island 30 minutes, 50 minutes, and Montehage Island Nain 60 minutes.

While Marina Blue Banter, you could use the cruise ship available to tourist area on the island of Bunaken with travel time 10-15 minutes from the port, while the Archipelago Diving Centre dive towards the island of Bunaken could use a speed boat with travel time of around 20 minutes. Any visitor who enters the Bunaken marine park area free of charge tickets of Rp 50 thousand. Tariff is valid both for the visitors who want to dive in and do not want to dive. In addition to regular tickets, there are also tickets are valid for one year at a price of Rp150 thousand. Visitors who purchase tickets that will be given some sort of annual badge specifically made of plastic as a sign of Bunaken national park entrance.