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The northern region is a land of white sandy beaches, mountains, highland lakes and volcanoes, towered by Mount Klabat. Its main attraction is undoubtedly the famous Bunaken Marine Reserve. A low crescent-shaped coral island ringed by a steep fringing reef, Bunaken offers white sandy beaches, a dense population of fish, coral and deep underwater gullies [...]
Central Sulawesi also offers spectacular diving and snorkeling opportunities. Large reefs around the Banggai Archipelago support a tremendous variety of marine life, such as hard and soft coral, reef sharks and turtles, schools of jackfish, tunas and other species. It is also the habitat of the endemic ornamental fish called the ‘Banggai Cardinal Fish’.
Tana Toraja is located in the rugged mountains and fertile plateaus of South Central Sulawesi. The Toraja people still retain their ancestral belief of aluk to dolo. Extended families live in a series of houses called ‘tongkonan’. The roofs of ‘tongkonan’ rise at both ends like the bow and stern of a ship.
The Sangihe Archipelago is a chain of volcanic islands off the north east peninsula of North Sulawesi. Consisting of about forty volcanic islands some of which are over 1,500 metres high, the archipelago’s waters are some of deepest in the world and deep-water currents bring plankton and nutrients from the deep.
Rising from the depths of the Banda Sea, the main islands of Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomea, Binongki – WaKaToBi – dish up large portions of all the world’s reef types – fringing, atoll and barrier – and are served with lashings of healthy corals and dense schools of fish. Being a national park, fishing is strictly [...]
To dive in the deep waters of the Bunaken Island National Marine Park in Manado is to be among some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world, with outstanding fish variety and world-class wall diving. When you’re scuba diving in Bunaken you can see seven times more genera of coral than Hawaii, 33 [...]
