Joyful Adventure Travel in Derawan Island

From the island of Maratua, the tour continues to Sangalaki Island. The journey using a speedboat takes about 50 minutes. Sangalaki Island itself is an island that has status as a turtle conservation area in Derawan islands. The trip to the island of Sangalaki a bit choked up when the sea water is receding, so the speedboat have to wait for the sea water to speedboat to get right to the island Sangalaki. While waiting for the tide, we can enjoy the white sand scenery submerged by sea water. If you do not want to wait, you can walk to Sangalaki Island from where the speedboat ran aground, about 10 minutes on foot.

Two Layer Mirror Lake

Sangalaki Island is a natural island that is intentionally not inhabited by humans. This place was crowned as the main place of laying green turtle eggs in Southeast Asia region. Here, there are many holes laying for green turtles. From one turtle nest hole, it produced approximately one hundred turtle children. This turtle child must be rescued by conservation officers not to be eaten by predators such as lizards, seabirds, and marine animals that are commonly found around this area. In addition, humans are the greatest threat to the survival of these turtles. The turtles will be treated for several days before they will be released into the sea.

Turtle at Sangalaki

From the island of Sangalaki, the journey continues towards Derawan island. Traveling by speedboat takes about 20 minutes. In Derawan Island, there are cottages or villas that can be used as a place to stay. The villa has a view directly facing the sea, so it is suitable for those of you who want to feel the natural atmosphere or calm down by hearing the sound of waves. Try to enjoy the joyful adventure travel in Derawan island.

In the morning, you can relax for a while by the beach while looking at the white sand and clear blue sea water. In Derawan Island also provided the center of diving facilities. This is of course more value that attracts foreign tourists.

Before doing the dives, we can for a moment walking around the island to enjoy its beauty. Do not forget to visit and buy local handicrafts.

Next let's do diving in Derawan, if you are not proficient to dive, you can request accompanied by dive guide. Beautiful rocks are ready to greet you under the sea. Among these coral rocks, there are meat-eating sea eels seeding hiding among the rock gaps. There are also sea rabbits, coral crabs and of course the adult sea turtles that swim around the coral reefs. Adult sea turtles are rare animals that are protected because they are threatened with extinction. Of a hundred turtle or turtle eggs, only one survives to adulthood. Therefore, being able to watch adult sea turtles swimming freely in the oceans is a rare reserve to be grateful for.

From the island of Derawan, our adventure continues towards Talisayan village located in the village of Pidu-pidu, Berau District, East Kalimantan Province. This village began to be famous for the whale shark (Whale shark). The journey from Derawan Island to Tanjung Batu can be reached for thirty minutes by speedboat. From Tanjung Batu to Talisayan Village can be reached by road trip by car for eight hours. Travel overland takes a long time due to the road conditions are not so good.

The journey to the sea to see the whale shark is done by renting a boat that is prepared by the locals. The emergence of whale sharks in this place due to the place of fishing in the sea called the chart. Fisherman who was fishing in Bagan often provide food, namely small fish that are favored by whale sharks that are passing. As a result, eventually the whale shark is then often swim The arrival of this whale shark is finally used by local residents to be offered to tourists, that is feeding whale sharks.

Feeding Whale Shark

If you have more courage, you can swim around this friendly whale shark. We should be a little cautious when swimming beside the whale sharks. Although it is a benign animal, swishing the whale's tail whales when swimming can cause serious injury to us. Keep a safe distance of about three to four meters while swimming beside the whale shark.

If you decide not to swim with whale sharks, you can feed these whale sharks directly. This whale shark is guaranteed to come directly to you. There are about five whale shark whales sharks around this fishing spot.

After we finish feeding the whale sharks, we head back to Talisayan village. From this village, road journey continues to Labuan Cermin which takes about one hour drive. In Labuan Mirror, there is a lake of Labuan Cermin that has a designer gan clear. Labuan Cermin Lake is located in the village of Labuan Kelambu, District idup-idup, East Kalimantan.

Two Surface Mirror Lake

Two Surface Mirror Lake

To enter the Labuan Cermin Lake, we are required to pay entrance fee, which also includes the cost of renting a wooden boat. Labuan Lake This mirror lies somewhat hidden, covered by the lush trees growing in the water and the sounds of the animals that live around it. You can snorkel here because the lake is famous for its very clear water, until the underwater scenery can be seen clearly using the naked eye. We can also see a fine line between sea water and fresh water meet. The animals that live in the Labuan Cermin Lake can be separated into two types, freshwater animals that live on the surface of the lake, and marine animals that live at the bottom of the lake. Do not forget to take pictures on the boat when here, you such as being floated in the air and not above the water surface due to its water clarity.

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