Beauty Derawan Island

Derawan island became a marine tourism destination choice for tourists charming. Beach with soft white sand and crystal clear waters glistening coupled with a benign turtles swim merrily when we do the dive.

Derawan archipelago consists of 31 islands. Four of the 31 islands is the island's most frequently visited by tourists, namely Derawan Island, Maratua, Charitable Island, and Kakaban. One such island is a turtle spawning grounds, breeding endangered green turtle, and hawksbill turtle. It is a dish of biodiversity in these islands.

Derawan Island has a wonderful charm with white sand that is ready to dazzle the eye. The tourists can enjoy the beauty of the beach and can swim accompanied umbak friendly. Derawan island also has its own exotic because it has a typical beach with water color that looks green because silauan mixed seaweed.

Derawan island charm is beyond doubt. Tourist accommodation is fairly easy to find, many people love to come back to this place. Here, tourists can see the turtles are being drowned body in the clean sand beach. Derawan island is also known as home to manta rays, and green sea turtles.

Derawan island also has Underwater Park. Type of marine animal that is easily found lobster, giant turtles, dolphins, manta rays, dugongs, barracudas, stingless jellyfish and sharks Derawan. Derawan Island is the best sport to dive named Turtle Cleaning Station.

With the beauty of the underwater owned, Derawan Island has been named as one of the tours with the most beautiful parks in the world under the sea at once a dream for international divers.

At the time travelers sitting on the end of a wooden bridge that leads to the ocean, they can watch green turtles and fro on the surface of the water is clear 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.

Alloy sea and moss colors produce stunning shades of blue and green, as well as a small forest in the middle, make this island so beautiful natural scenery presents a pity to pass up.

Dr.. Carden Wallace of the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Australia has examined marine wealth Derawan Island and found more than 50 species Arcropora (marine animal) in one coral reef. Derawan island famous as the third highest in the world as an international dive destination.

The island is relatively less well known especially in the country due to its own struggle to achieve it took quite complicated. Travelers must first go to Balikpapan from Jakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta or Denpasar, to reach this island. With a period of approximately 2 hours which can be traveled from Jakarta to Balikpapan. Of Balikpapan, travelers must fly to Cape Redeb for an hour with a small plane that served by KAL Star, Deraya or DAS or by boarding the ship from Samarinda or Tarakan to Tanjung Redeb proceed with the lease motorboat to the island Derawan with long travel more than 2 hours .

Many foreigners fresh off the plane at the airport Kalimarau, Cape Redeb went directly to Derawan island by motorboat which was moored at a specific port.

Another alternative could be through land route from Balikpapan to Tanjung Batu and from there across to the island Derawan.

Many foreign tourists who already know more about the existence of this exotic island. A number of Japanese tourists through travel from Tokyo who was there "shoot straight" go to Singapore or to Sabah and then continue the trip to Aberdeen, then to Cape Redeb using small aircraft.

They used the time during the Derawan with diving, along the underwater beauty of the island which indeed is the best location for diving. Moreover, the condition of the remote islands and "virgin" increasingly add charm. Only within a distance of 50 meters from the beach, tourists can watch beautiful coral reefs and colorful fish back and forth. Travelers also can rent a snorkel for Rp 30 thousand per day. If you dive deeper, the fish can see the more "exotic" such as grouper, red fish, Kurisi, barracuda fish, sea urchins, and clams. On the rocks at a depth of ten meters, there is a reef known as "Blue Trigger Wall" because of the reef with a length of 18 meters there is a lot of trigger fish (red-toothed trigger fishes).