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Bunaken Marine Park, Manado North Sulawesi

Bunaken National Park, Amazing Underwater Nature in Manado 


      A popular tourist destination in Indonesia abroad is the Bunaken Marine Park, which is located in the Bay of Manado.
Bunaken has become one of the tourist attractions because of the beauty of its underwater garden which is difficult to find in other countries.
Visiting Bunaken Marine Park, travelers will discover the beauty of life in the sea that makes your eyes can't stop looking at it.

Bunaken Marine Park, Manado
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Bunaken is a national park that has been designated by the Indonesian Minister of Forestry in 1991 as a tourist attraction. Bunaken has a location that is representative of the Indonesian tropical aquatic ecosystem. Consisting of ecosystems of mangrove forests, seagrass beds, to coral reefs and terrestrial or coastal ecosystems.

In this marine park there are 13 types of coral reefs which are dominated by marine rocks.
In addition, the most interesting sight is the presence of steep vertical coral reefs that soar down as deep as 25-50 meters. you will see 91 types of fish that are in it.

Bunaken Marine Park has become one of the tourist destinations for tourists, especially sea lovers.
Moreover, this favorite Indonesian tourist spot for foreign tourists provides facilities for scuba diving with the best 20 dive points, where divers can swim on the seabed with a variety of amazing marine life.

The island in it is indeed rich in flora and fauna, where Bunaken National Park has 13 genera or genera of living corals with a predominance of fringing reefs and barrier reefs. There are about 91 species of fish that live in these waters, such as the gusumi horse, from yellow tail to ila gasi.

Tourists who come to enjoy Bunaken underwater tourism are not only local tourists, but also foreign tourists. This proves that tourism in Indonesia has a world appeal.

In Bunaken Manado there are also many marine tourism activities that tourists can do. From diving, snorkeling, sunbathing and swimming. There is also a diving center named Dragonet, and was once the secretariat for the Sail Bunaken event. The place is on Kalase beach, precisely on the outskirts of the city of Manado. Sail Bunaken itself broke the MURI record with more than 2000 divers participating in the flag ceremony at the bottom of the sea.

Bunaken Sea Park Manado Indonesia

Meanwhile, the owner of the Dagonet Diving Center employs a dive instructor who is already certified as SDI or Scuba Diving International. Dragonet offers scuba lessons for beginners. For example, visitors or novice divers learn the basics of diving for 15 minutes, and will be invited to gradually up to 45 minutes at depths of up to 6 meters. This assistance from the Diving Center will certainly make it easier for tourists to enjoy the beauty of the underwater world from Bunaken Marine Park.

Why is Bunaken Marine Park called heaven on earth? It's because the divers can find about 20 dive spots. 12 of them can be found in Bunaken Island. In fact, the uniqueness of the dives here is the visibility that can reach 20 meters. This condition indicates that the water is very clear.

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