BELA TOURS & TRAVEL - MANADO TOUR - TERNATE TOUR - HALMAHERA TOUR

Bunaken Marine National Park
With an area 75,265 hectares, off the northern peninsula comprising 5 islands: Bunaken, Manado Tua, Siladen, Mantehage and Nain. The reefs here are basically untouched. It is considered the best walls and drop-offs diving in the world. There is fantastic "underwater great walls" cut by crevices and large caves with hanging masses of coral. The variety of marine life here is excellent, the surface of the walls are crowded with hard and soft corals, sponges and clinging filter feeders like crinoids and basket stars. Also in this unique coral reefs, a tremendous collection of marine life thrives red and orange enrusting sponges, Christmas tree worms, giant tunicates, seawhips, nudibranches (Spanish dancer), transparent and red striped coral shrimps, lobster, crabs, mollucs, thousands of ornamental coral fish and larger pelagics. Often seen are angelfish, blue ribbon eels, stingray, eagleray, morays, Napoleon wrasse, groupers, harmless sea snake, sharks, barracuda, dolphins’ etc.