Bunaken Marine Parks

Bunaken is an 8.08 km² island in the Bay of Manado, situated in the north of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bunaken forms part of the administrative city of Manado , capital of North Sulawesi. The marine Park around Bunaken is part of the  National Park that also includes the ocean around the island of  Manado Tua – or Old Manado, Siladen and Mantehage.  

Overall, the Bunaken National Marine Park, Indonesia covers an area of ​​75,262 hectares consisting of five islands, namely the island of Manado old, Bunaken island, Siladen Island, the island and the island Naen Mantehage. Because of its inherent wealth of governmental and non-governmental organizations working together to conserve coral reefs and mangroves in the region.

Bunaken National Park has a coastal and marine biodiversity is very high and there are three major ecosystems of tropical waters of Indonesia, the Coral Reef, Mangrove and Seagrass.

Bunaken has at least 40 dive sites rich in fish tropical fish and coral reefs. Visitors can dive and see 150 species of 58 genera of fish and coral reefs of Bunaken marine area is. Divers will surely be amazed by the wealth of Indonesia's marine park.

The translucent waters of the Bunaken seas enable people to clearly view numerous sea biota. There are 13 species of coral reefs in this park, dominated by edge ridges and block ridges of rocks. The most attractive view is the steep vertical sloppy coral reef that plunges down as deep as 25-50 meters.

Feast your eyes on 91 types of fish found in the Bunaken National Park, amongst which are the locally known gusimi horse fish (Hippocampus), the white oci (Seriola rivoliana), yellow-tailed lolosi (Lutjanus kasmira), goropa (Ephinephelus spilotoceps and Pseudanthias hypselosoma), ila gasi (Scolopsis bilineatus) and others.

Divers may also meet mollusk like the giant kima (Tridacna gigas), goat head (Cassis cornuta), nautilus (Nautilus pompillius) and tunikates/ascidian.

For those who enjoy scuba diving, this is a great place to be. With about 20 dive spots to choose from, divers will have the chance to swim below the sea, and frolic joyfully while admiring the sea creatures.