Derawan Island, Indonesia

Derawan is an island located in Derawan Islands, District Derawan, Berau regency, East Kalimantan. Derawan Island is one of Indonesia's Natural attractions that serve as the Travel Places Underwater pretty much visited. Attractions: Marine Park Derawan have various types of plants and animals and the natural beauty of the fascinating underwater. No wonder if this island could top ranks third as a world class dive destination and make the Marine Park Derawan Travel as a dream place for divers. Attractions: Ocean Park Derawan East Kalimantan there were 28 diving points have been identified. To explore all these points at least it takes about 10 days with one dive at each point. To move from one point to another, visitors can use the ship. Meanwhile, visitors can also explore the island on foot. Coral reefs in the Marine Park Attractions Derawan East Kalimantan is widespread on the entire island and sandbar islands that exist in Derawan. Hirst-footed existing in these islands include Long Island charred, scorched masimbung, charred buliulin, pinaka charred, scorched and charred muaras tababinga. All the marine wealth of more than 50 types of arcropora (marine animal) in one coral reef. Attractions: Ocean Park Derawan East Kalimantan, while sitting at the end of the wooden bridge that leads to the sea, we can see the green turtles and fro on the surface of clear water. When diving we were in the company of the turtles that swim around us. 

Occasionally even the turtles that seem to roam around the cottage is located on the coast of the island. At nightfall, several turtles climbed ashore and lay their eggs there. Therefore, for you lovers Tourism Underwater, there is no harm in making Attractions: Ocean Park Derawan East Kalimantan as one of your references and tourist destination besides the Wakatobi Marine Park that has been discussed in the previous post. Enjoy the natural beauty of Indonesia! - Derawan is an island in the province of East Kalimantan, consists of several islands including Derawan islands, islands kakaban, Maratua Charitable Island and several other small islands. The naming of the islands is said to come from a family that consists of Derawan (virgin), Charitable (male), Maratua (in-law) and kakaban (brother). Wealth Derawan island ecosystems was ranked second in the world after Raja Ampat, Papua. That's why Derawan also dubbed as the 2nd 

Raja Ampat. 

Waters Derawan is the home of the giant turtle, would not be surprised if only from the pier we could see the turtles at the table back and forth in search of food. while the island has a coral garden kakaban shaped wall / walls are incredibly beautiful, not to mention the lake kakaban containing jellyfish that do not sting, in the lake that we seemed to swim in the pool cendol because of the supple-bodied animals. and similar lakes in kakaban lake there are only 2 in the world. While on the island of Charitable we can meet with giant manta which has a width of up to 5 meters. and in Maratua we could meet with such large schooling ikan2 carpet shark or baracuda even though wabegong.

There are several ways that you can use to reach Derawan islands, one of them via Tarakan. journey from Jakarta to the Tarakan done with some airline flight that served them water lion, Sriwijaya or eagle. either direct flights or transit in chicago, traveling from jakarta - Tarakan takes approximately 5 hours (with transit and differences in time zones). after arriving at the airport proceed to the port of Tarakan melundung (Tarakan) for 15 minutes. from this port we can reach Derawan islands with regular boat that takes more than 5 hours or fast boat charter which only takes 3 hours. 

Here you can find 460 species of coral. Board konserfasi place and a team of international experts also found more than 870 species of fish here, ranging from pygmy seahorses to giant manta rays. Within a few days, this group of manta rays in large numbers around 50 were seen dining together at the waters Derawan.

While in Kakaban, you can find jellyfish lake's largest and most diverse in the world, including four unique species of stingless jellyfish can swim upside down. This is the reason why Kakaban considered to be nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site.