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Manado - Indonesian manado transliteration, officially known as Manado Lao
【Popular Science - Manado】
The mecca of diving
Many people may not be familiar with the name Manado, but those who love diving must know that among the five major diving institutions PADI, CMAS, SSI, NAUI, BSAC, the great barrier reef ranks 2nd, the Maldives can only rank 4th, and Menado ranks 1st.
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As a diving mecca, Manado is home to more than 70% of the Pacific Ocean's biological species, and snorkeling here does not require snorkeling at fixed dive sites as it does in Palau and Saipan. It's just a random sea, you jump down, and the stunning landscape is waiting for you at the bottom of the sea.
The dive sites around Manado are not only numerous but also picturesque:
Popular diving spot - Bunaken
Bunaken Marine Park is the essence of Manado diving – "even if you're looking for death, divers have to go to Bunaken", at least some of the island's hard-line divers say.
Bunaken Marine Park is a crescent-shaped coral reef island consisting of five islands, 97% of which are clear and warm oceans.
This marine park you must know that there is no ticket to play on the island, but you need a ticket to enter the sea, and then you call it to enter the marine park.
According to the DISCOVERY Discovery Channel, this area is the origin of life on Earth as a whole, and until now, on average, new species have been born in about 20 years.
Here you can see more than 300 species of corals and more than 3,000 species of tropical fish, and if you are lucky, you can also see the rare marine animals such as large turtles and hammerhead sharks.
A depth of 10 meters in Bunaken is already beautiful. Snorkeling on the shore, you can see hundreds of tropical fish such as diverse and multi-colored anemones, clownfish, butterflyfish, lionfish, manta rays, etc., and if you dive into the deep seabed, you can also see Napoleon fish, turtles, moray eels, sunfish, and unique bean-ding seahorses.
Macro photography paradise - Lambir Straits
The Rambi Strait is a 15 km long and 2 km wide narrow sea between the Indonesian island of North Sulawesi and the Lambi Island, and it takes 1 hour to drive from Manado to the Rambi Strait, get off the bus and take a 10-minute ferry ride. It is a place with calm winds and waves throughout the year, which is very suitable for scientific expeditions and is also a paradise for "macro photography".
Because the sea is rich in nutrients at the confluence of ocean currents, lava and ash from volcanic eruptions have caused large areas of coral to die, but instead have bred a variety of strange small creatures. Small animals such as mimetic octopus, Guan Gong crab, blunt-fronted curved hairy crab, and gall star fish make macro photography enthusiasts flock to it. What you can see in Lanbi, you must not find it in other places, this is its charm!
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How to get to Manado:
1. Depart from Jakarta/Bali
Manado Airport is one of Indonesia's major tourist airports, so in Indonesia can do a plane to Manado, Manado Airport has buses and taxis to all over the place, negotiate the price and then get on the bus, from the airport to the city to play about 100,000 Indonesian Rupiah.
2. Depart from Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is also a large tourist airline transit point in Southeast Asia, and a transfer from Kuala Lumpur to Manado can be considered, which is more cost-effective.
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