Derawan Island Suitable Place to Vacation

A tourist spot so beautifully enchanting exists in this area, precisely in Derawan Islands, District Derawan, Berau district, East Kalimantan. Derawan Island, a tourist spot that is worth mentioning as "heaven on earth" because it presents a beauty of nature both above the sea as well as in the sea were amazing. From above the sea, the island Derawan presents an expanse of sea level color shades of blue and green, white sand, rows of palm trees on the coast, as well as the humble houses as an inn that jutted into the middle sea nearly 100 meters which makes us able to enjoy diverse colorful fish and turtles passing freely beneath us. How very beautiful is not it?

But not only there, Derawan serving marine tourism that is not less interesting. Waters around Derawan island marine park that used to travel diving to a depth of approximately 5 meters. In the park, there is a wide variety of marine life that live and grow side by side, including various types of coral reefs, cuttlefish, seahorses, octopus, pipefish, ribbon eels, and fish Scorpion.


Visitors can also review some of the other islands are still around Derawan which certainly has a unique natural attractions of its own, including black stingray which has a wide diameter of 6 meters, planers coconut, dolphin, green turtle, hawksbill turtles, whales, dugongs, up to the lake at the center of the sea. It was amazing sights, it's no wonder where this tour is very well known to foreign tourists even ranked third in the world as an international dive destination.

Located not far from the mainland Berau regency in East Kalimantan, Derawan archipelago consists of 31 islands and the most famous of which is the island Derawan, Maratua, Charitable, and Kakaban. Here nesting endangered green turtles and hawksbill turtles. You can watch every day turtles lay their eggs in the sand or swim to sea along with turtles. The whole area of marine conservation is the extent of not less than 1.27 million hectares.

You can find at least 460 species of corals and is the second largest after the Raja Ampat in West Papua. At least Derawan Island found more than 870 species of fish ranging from pygmy seahorses to giant manta rays. Within a few days, a group of manta rays has large amounts of up to 50 animals you can see are eating together in Derawan Island waters.

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

Derawan provides various facilities such as cottages, diving equipment, speedboat, and restaurants. To get to the island Derawan was quite easy, you can use the aircraft from Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, with the aim of Balikpapan, then flew to Cape Rep for one hour by plane DAS, Deraya, or KAL Star followed by rented motorboat to the island Derawan , In addition to using air, Tanjung Redep can be reached by sea using boats from Samarinda Tarakan.