Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Taman Nasional Laut Bunaken

Sulawesi Island is famous for the beauty of the sea is one of the Bunaken National Park is located in North Sulawesi and is ± 8 km from the mainland city of Manado. Its location is strategic enough to make it easy to park visited by tourists both from domestic and from abroad. Bunaken National Park is one-one recreational destination for tourists attracted considerable domestic and foreign tourists. Activities that can be done in the Bunaken Marine National Park is like sunbathing on the beach, swimming at sea, diving (diving), snorkeling, exploring the forests surrounding the overall pantai.Secara Bunaken Marine National Park has an area of 75,265 hectares area in which there are five islands, namely Bunaken Island, Manado Tua Island, Island Siladen, Mantehage Island along with several islands and the last child Naen Island. Although this marine park has five islands adjacent, only the most famous Bunaken Island as dive sites.
Regions Park in 1991 as a national marine park was inaugurated by the Minister of Marine and serve as the object of marine tourism and education as well as see the potential of natural and marine ecology conservation activities of this region. In addition to tourism activities, marine parks is very good for the development of educational knowledge of adults and children about the natural and marine resources.
Bunaken Marine National Park is one of the most beautiful marine park in the world, famous for its coral formations which are very beautiful and spacious. Marine park is a habitat for more than 3000 species of fish that need to be guarded from extinction, such as yellow tail fish lolosi (Lutjanus kasmira), fish gusumi horse (hippocampus horse), goropa (ephinephelus spilotoceps), white oci (seriola rivoliana) and many others as well has a diversity of rare species of aquatic organisms such as dolphins, sea cow, dugong-dugong and also have various kinds of ornamental fish are very beautiful.
Bunaken National Park has a large enough area to do the dive, though still only limited dive sites around the beaches that surround the fifth island, this is done for the safety of visitors and to facilitate the officer in supervising 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 forget it. For diving, Bunaken Marine National Park are among 10 places in the world's most popular dive. There are 20 points where the dive (dive spot) with varying depth of up to 1344 meters in area of this marine park. Of the 20 diving points, 12 points of which were around the Bunaken Island and most frequently visited by divers and tourists. Marine natural phenomena that exist in Bunaken National Park is a unique and almost certainly not be found in other marine parks. This marine park has keunikkan a giant rock walls that stand vertically and curved upward or called underwater great walls or hanging walls. Rock wall is also a source where the food for the fish in the waters around Bunaken Island.


Access to Bunaken Marine National Park To visit this park, visitors can use a rented motor boats depart from the seashore in the city of Manado bay toward the marine park.
Facilities Available Around the location of available hotels, resorts, homestay, swimming pool, restaurant, post office, tower, gatehouse, boat speed. There are also rental diving equipment along with the instructor.
When Best To Visit The Bunaken National Park The best season to visit Bunaken Marine National Park is in May to August
The Mandatory Carried Supplies Under certain conditions necessary to protect themselves from the sea breeze, it is necessary to bring a sweater or jacket, headgear, scarves for neck warmers.
Attention Must Be It's good when they visit the Bunaken Marine National Park in top shape health condition.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Losari Beach

Losari is an icon of Makassar. First, the long beach approximately one mile was once dubbed the beach with the world's longest table, because the tent stalls lined the shore embankment. Now, these stalls have been relocated to a place not far from tourist areas. Makassar City Government has been beautifying the beach is to create a pavilion covering an area of 100 thousand square meters, so that it looks more beautiful, clean, pollution-free and comfortable to visit. Sightseeing is most crowded in the afternoon, between 1500 hrs to 2100 hrs PST. B. Feature Losari has a unique and fascinating features. One of its uniqueness is the visitors can watch the sunrise and sunset in the same position. Specialty of these attractions are the visitors can enjoy the beautiful waves that broke the dike beach and coolness "angingmamiri" blowing breeze, watching the seconds in full sun over the horizon, starting from the color change to shift its position until the correct completely disappeared from sight. The visitors also can enjoy a variety of fresh seafood. In the south bridge Losari, there is a cafe and a floating restaurant that uses traditional boat Bugis-Makassar "Phinisi" with varied menu, such as cooking stingrays, squid and lobster with prices ranging between Rp 7,500, - to Rp 25.000, - per serving. In addition, the pengungjung can sample a variety of foods typical of Makassar, such as bananas epek, pallu Butung, green bananas, coto Makassar, konro soup, and others. Another specialty is the visitors can access the internet for free through the hot spots along Losari.
C. Location Losari located right in the heart of Makassar, which is on the Road Comforter, which is located to the west of the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi.
D. Access The location is very strategic Losari, making it easy to access. From the port of Sukarno Hatta in Makassar, this beach can be reached about 15 minutes by car or motorcycle. If departing from Hasanuddin Airport, can be reached about 45 minutes by car or motorcycle.
E. Admission Prices Losari is a place of recreation for free (free) for the general public.
F. Accommodation and Facilities In the vicinity of attractions available various types of vehicles such as buses, taxis, and rickshaws are available to take visitors around to enjoy the atmosphere of Makassar. Along Jl. Entertainers are also available lodging facilities ranging from guesthouse to hotels, restaurants, cafes, hospitals, coffee shops, and various other entertainment venues, and all facing toward the open sea. On Jl. Somba Opu, not far from the tourist attraction, there are shopping centers and souvenir gold craft of Makassar.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Taman Nasional Wakatobi

Wakatobi National Park has the potential of marine natural resources that both types of high value and uniqueness, with stunning panoramic underwater. In general, sea water has a flat configuration from the start until the sloping towards the sea, and there are some areas that bertubir steep waters. The water depth varies, the deepest reaches 1044 meters with a floor of most of the sandy and rocky. This national park has 25 pieces with clusters of coral reefs around the coast of coral islands along the 600 km. More than 112 coral species from 13 families including Acropora formosa, A. hyacinthus, Psammocora profundasafla, Pavona cactus, Leptoseris yabei, Fungia molucensis, Lobophyllia robusta, Merulina ampliata, Platygyra versifora, Euphyllia glabrescens, Tubastraea frondes, Stylophora pistillata, throchelliophorum Sarcophyton, and Sinularia spp.
Fish species richness of this national park which is owned as many as 93 species of fish consumption and trade of ornamental fish such as Argus spots (Cephalopholus argus), takhasang (naso unicornis), pogo-pogo (Balistoides viridescens), napoleon (Cheilinus undulatus), red fish (Lutjanus biguttatus ), baronang (Siganus guttatus), Amphiprion melanopus, Chaetodon specullum, Chelmon rostratus, Heniochus acuminatus, Lutjanus monostigma, Caesio caerularea, and others.
In addition there are several species of sea birds such as goose-brown stone (Sula leucogaster plotus), kettle melayu (Charadrius peronii), king prawn erasia (Alcedo atthis), also there are three types of turtles that often landed on islands in the Park: hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), turtle jars (Caretta caretta), and turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea).
The indigenous people who live around the Park is the tribe called the sea or the Bajau tribe. According to the records of ancient Chinese and European explorers, said that boating humans are capable of being explored Merqui Islands, Johor, Singapore, Sulawesi and the Sulu Archipelago. From the whole human boating in Southeast Asia that still have traditional boating culture is the Bajau tribe. Seeing their daily life is interesting and unique, especially diving into the ocean without any equipment to spear fish.
Hoga Island (Resort Kaledupa), Binongko Island (Resort Binongko) Tamia and Resort is the location of interesting places to visit, especially for diving, snorkeling, marine tourism, swimming, camping, tourism and culture.