North Sulawesi is home to the beautiful steep coral reef walls of Bunaken National Marine Park, attracting divers of all levels to its warm waters, clear visibility and pristine walls covered in soft corals and sponges, surrounded by barracuda, moray eels and turtles.
Your base for this week is the seafront Murex Manado Resort set amongst mature landscaped tropical gardens, and offering stunning views of Manado Tua volcano in the Bunaken Marine Park, where divers and snorkellers can enjoy world-class sites, wall dives and an incredible variety of marine life.
The Bunaken National Marine Park offers world-class diving in the Coral Triangle and has won numerous international conservation awards, and is home to the majority of the dive sites that are accessible from the resorts in the area.
Suggested Itinerary
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Day 1:
Depart the UK for Indonesia
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Day 2:
Arrive Bunaken
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Days 3-8
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Scuba diving in Bunaken
Enjoy a pack of 12 boat dives to use throughout your seven night stay, with the possibility of adding in a night or blackwater dive for experienced divers, in the waters around Manado and Bunaken National Park with the on-site dive centre.
The aquatic ecosystem of the Bunaken National Marine Park attracts divers of all levels due to the high levels of marine biodiversity, the warm waters, and the clear visibility which makes it excellent for underwater photography. Pristine walls covered in soft corals and sponges are home to barracuda, napoleon wrasse, reef sharks, green and hawksbill turtles and countless smaller inhabitants.
Most of the reefs are rich and unspoilt, offering pristine and abundant soft coral and reef fish in huge concentrations. The night diving in the park is spectacular, providing frequent encounters with rare nocturnal creatures. For a change of scenery, the Molas wreck is remarkably intact for a WWII ship, the bow resting at 25m and the propeller at 40m.
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Day 9:
Departure
After a week enjoying the magical diving of North Sulawesi, it's time to be transferred back to Manado airport for your return flight to the UK.
Alternatively, you can extend your stay. For divers interested in the weird and wonderful, Lembeh Strait is within easy reach and offers the best muck diving on Earth. Attracting marine experts from around the world, it's home to a huge array of rare and unusual marine life, with new species regularly being discovered. There's also the tranquil Bangka Archipelago, with white sand beaches and soft coral to rival the best. Contact us to start planning your dive holiday.
