Bunaken National Park

Bunaken National Park is The Favorite Beach for Diving

Bunaken National Park

Bunaken National Park is a tourist place in the Bay of Manado - North Sulawesi Indonesia with an area of ​​approximately 8.08 square kilometers, where this tour is one part of city of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi. Here, there is a very beautiful Marine Park located around the island of Manado Tua (Mantehage and Siladen). to enjoy the atmosphere of the underwater Bunaken Marine park you have to dive into and move to the rhythm of the waves flowing.

The natural charm of the amazing underwater will be found here, there are about 13 species of coral reefs that rose steeply downward vertical depth of approximately 25-50 meters. You will also be pampered with views that are served by about 91 species of fish in the Bunaken Marine Park. among other white koi (Seriola rivoliana), local gusimi (Hippocampus), indigo trunk (Scolopsis bilineatus), goropa (spilotocepsep hinephelus and hypselosoma Pseudanthias), yellow tail lolosi (Lutjanus kasmira), and many others. not only that here is also found mollusks such as fish heads goat (Cassis cornuta), nautilus (Nautilus pompillius), giant clams (Tridacna gigas) and tunikates or askidian.

Bunaken National Park in Tour
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For the traveler who likes scuba diving, this place is one of the best right to perform these activities. there are about 20 points which can be used for dives, where you will get a chance to swim into the sea with diverse marine life very charming.

History of Bunaken

Bunaken Marine park this one could very well known as it is today because of the beauty of the marine park, this tourist was found in 1975, and turned into a tourist mainstay of North Sulawesi. sebenarnyawilayah of bunaken has been inhabited by people since the year 1400, and the people who first inhabited this place are immigrants from the royal Bowontehu (Manado Tua) as well as the territories occupied includes the islands of Bunaken, Mantehage, Siladen, Naen, Talise, Bangka island, Ganges and region Minahasa peninsula north coast

In the 1850's, people who occupied Tanjung Parigi move to Southeast Directions are located on the edge of the beach and directly opposite the city of Manado yourself. The community then founded a country which they named "Wunakeng" which is an abbreviation of the name "Kinawungakeng", said Kinawunakeng itself has meaning shelter. Later in development, the word "Wunakeng" itself changed to Park which is an abbreviation of "Pamunakeng" which has the meaning of a boat landing place.

At first Bunaken  Marine Park was found by a group of divers from the city of Manado who tried conducting diving expedition undertaken in this place in 1975. And when they conduct dives, local fishermen warned the divers that dive into the many places they are demons, but divers had not flinch and continued to conduct dives. after they were down below where Bunaken sea water, divers - divers had found the marine plants on the wall pristine coral and fish - a rare fish, which makes them amazed - amazed at the fantastic scenery. since that Bunaken be a very fascinating tourist place in North Sulawesi. then in 1991 it became a national park in Indonesia and in 2005 Bunaken National Park became one of the world heritage site upon registration to UNIESCO. Read also Used Portable Buildings in this blog.