Oner's Daily

Bunaken name was very often heard in our lives, since our primary school, very often our teachers are always talking about the beauty of the sea in Bunaken. Lots of foreign tourists longed to be on vacation and dive on the small island of eight square kilometers.

Island located in the northwest city of Manado, has the diversity of life that is very large, because these islands are places where the plankton which is the food of all marine creatures up to the surface. Due to the large amount of plankton that rise to the top surface of the ocean, many marine who chose this place as home. Snorkler and the diver could see 70% -80% of marine species in the world, seven of the eight species of giant clams can be found at Bunaken.

In Bunaken, a lot of which can be done to enjoy the beauty beneath the sea, from the view only from a glass bottom boat, and personal favorite snorkeling, scuba diving. No surprise that scuba diving is the most enjoyable activities for all tourists. Here the tourists can see a nearly 70-80% of fish and coral reefs in the world.

Beautiful coral reefs in Bunaken Island is also still very good. They do not experience the process of bleaching or coral bleaching, the effects of el-nino storm so the color and beauty remain intact. In addition to natural factors, the condition of reefs in Bunaken also keep the citizens on patrol around tirelessly to preserve the integrity of this marine park. They realize, without a healthy ocean reef they would lose a good livelihood. Bunaken marine park’s success is now followed by all the emerging marine parks in Indonesia.

In Bunaken, the tourists can see a lot of things that rarely can be seen as:

Pygmy Seahorse: horses sea horses sea is very unique. Sea horses the size of a finger nail only, and usually resembles a pink house in the gorgonian sea fan. These seahorses will always resemble the color of the sea horse home to avoid the pursuit of their predators such as groupers.

Sea snail or commonly called Nudibranchs: Sea snails are easily found at Bunaken. Unlike his brother who is on land, sea slugs do not have a hard shell but very different colors can also be found at Bunaken.

In addition, Bunaken is where nature conservation is successful, this causes a lot of turtles that can reach the age of 80 years so that tourists can see lots of turtles as big as a registration desk.


From Jakarta, many airlines have to fly to Manado route almost every day. To reach Manado, we had to fly for approximately three hours from Jakarta. In Manado, you can stay in the city then contacted Manadonya dive resorts to arrange your vacation on the island of Bunaken so that your vacation more comfortable and not too much care of matters such as logistics and ships.

Palu is the capital of Central Sulawesi province. To reach Palu, you can use an aircraft from Jakarta, approximately four-hour flight. After arriving at Palu Mutiara International Airport, you can directly go to Palu city by bus or taxi. The distance of travel from airport to downtown Palu Mutiara approximately 5 miles. Arriving in Palu, you can visit some interesting places. Talise beach to be one of them. Geographically, Talise beach located at the end of Palu Bay and stretches from the town of Palu to district Donggala

Now listeners, to get to this beach, you can depart from Palu Mutiara Airport, approximately four miles to use public transport or taxi. If you depart from the center of Palu, the distance to the beach is only about 2 kilometers. Because the location is not too far from downtown Palu, Talise beach as one of the leading tourist attractions for the city of Palu.

Palu city better known as the Gulf is flanked by the mainland Palu Palu and Donggala by having a diverse attractions such as beaches, parks forest highways, indigenous houses, and others. One of them is Talise beach tourism that comes from the Kaili which means fruit ‘almond’, this beach is so named because it used to be overgrown by almond trees.
The attraction that can only be met when you are on the edge of the bridge Palu Talise beach. From afar, the bridge was inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in May 2007 was seen stretched across the river town of Palu.

Karangbolong Beach is a sandy beach wide enough lye, which is bounded by hills composed of clastic sedimentary rocks of volcanic origin. Gray sand-coarse fines derived from these rocks. A wash of large waves that hit the wall of hills produce enough energy to erode, transport and precipitate the return of rock grains. High degree of weathering in this region to accelerate the abrasion process. Local, lava breccia outcrop located near the coast experienced erosion, resulting in the formation of unique abrasion.
Karangbolong coast has the potential to form a strong reverse flow, so it is a dangerous area for swimming. Other activities that can be done is to lure tourists, where some reef fish species is relatively abundant on this beach.
In this coastal area there are also Karangbolong Cave, located on the east side. A long corridor formed on the fractured lava breccia layer. Cave Karangbolong a length of 30 m, width 10 m and a height of about 5 m. Formation breccia known as Gabon is Oligo-Miocene or between 30-15 million years ago, unveiled along with inserts sandstone and clay.

Cave formation is influenced by peruntuhan Karangbolong that occur along the boundary area between pasri tuff stone or clay stone. Peruntuhan hole is getting bigger because the layer of rocks that hang over the roof hole always collapse under their weight. That process is also triggered by the burly-burly that is, whose presence weakens the bond between the components of the power of rock. The process of cave formation is observed both in the east end and south Goa Karangbolong, where on a small scale peruntuhan rocks occur along the boundary of different layers. Because not a limestone cave, the cave is not found Karangbolong ornaments.