Joyful Adventure in Love Island

This joyful adventure will be done in Love Island. This tourist destination is located in Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi Island. To be able to get to the tourist location, the traveler can use the airplane with the aim of Gorontalo. This time the trip will be taken from Soekarno Hatta Airport, Jakarta to Jalaludin Airport, Gorontalo with a long journey of approximately 1.5 hours. Then from the airport, the journey continues through the land route for approximately 2 hours to the town of Boalemo, more precisely to the district Tilamuta. Travel by rental car, traffic along the way tend to be quiet, not many vehicles are encountered during this road trip, although the road conditions are good and smooth. We can also use the public bus from the airport to get to Boalemo Harbor.

The city of Gorontalo in 2016 was awarded Adipura Kirana in recognition of its clean city condition. The award motivates its citizens to improve comfort and cleanliness in order to increase the number of tourists and promote the tourism sector in this city.

After a short trip from Jalaludin airport and arriving at Boalemo harbor, the tour is continued by boat boat to our destination, Cinta Cinta Island. This sea journey takes only a short time, which is only about half an hour. After arriving at Cinta Island, we are directly served by a resort called Pulau Cinta Eco Resort. Yes the origin of the name of this island of love because the wooden cottages are interconnected by a wooden bridge that resembles a symbol of love. This cottage itself has a thatched roof, so it adds a beautiful shade close to nature. In the midst of this symbol of love, there is a small island of native land covered by white sand that is also symbolic of love, whether intentional or not. The resort itself stands on a bluish coastline, with the depth of the sea water just as high as the adult knees to its lowest point and the head of the deawasa for its highest point. The resort also uses sunlight as a source of electrical energy in cottages. In addition, the human waste disposal system uses eco-friendly eco principles, which are managed by the mother house in the middle of the island of love, so that the remaining waste water is safe to dispose of the funds to the sea.

Love island, Gorontalo

Each cottage is furnished with living room, room and 360 degree view, so you can see the sea water and the pleasant beach atmosphere from all sides of the cottage.

Once you are satisfied enjoy the view of the blue sea water in the cottage, there is no harm to diving and enjoy underwater view around this island resort of love. This resort provides motor boats, diving facilities and of course diving instructors destined for those of you who have never been diving or are still non-professional. For those of you who have never dived, the coach will teach and accompany the dives, with a maximum allowable depth of only 10 to 12 meters. At this diving point, you can see fish and coral reefs with the naked eye, because sunlight can penetrate to the bottom of the sea.

The underwater beauty beneath and around the cottages is currently threatened by coral-eating predators, the Crown of Thorn (Crown of Thorn). To overcome the thorny sea star and salvage coral reefs, especially around the cottages, the resort officers routinely snorkel to pick up the crowned thorn starfish encountered.

The best way to tackle this thorny crown is to pick it up and lift it up into the water, and then let in the direct exposure to sunlight. Officers avoid to prick or cut off this thorned crown, because every body piece of this prickly crowned starfish can be born and grow into a new spiny crown sea star.

Around the island of love, there are about 23 uninhabited and unspoiled islands. We can visit the islands using motor boats that have been provided by the resort. We will dive at the salvadore point in the waters of the homini bay. The point of this dive is deeper than the point of diving around the island of Love. At the point of this dive, we can see salvadore dali sponges larger than humans, which is a sponge that has a beautiful carving on the outside like a Salvador Dali painting. Salvador Dali sponge has a function to filter out the waste contained in seawater, so this sponge has an important role in an underwater ecosystem.

Salvador dali Sponges Underwater of Gorontalo

Tomorrow, we can leave Island Cinta travel continue to see the whale shark, which is located around Botubarani beach, Botubarani village, Bonebolanggo district. From the port of Boalemo, road trips to the village of Botubarani can be reached for approximately 3-4 hours journey.

According to the dive guides, there are some rules that must be obeyed when going to do snorkeling or diving with whale sharks. We must keep a safe distance from the whale shark as far as 4 meters. We are not allowed to actively pursue the whale sharks. When we swim and be approached by whale sharks, stay calm and then swim away horizontally from the whale's movements.

Whale Shark at Botubarani Beach

The dive sessions and seeing the whale shark from close range are amazing. Moreover, we are located close enough from the beach, to be able to dive and see the whale shark. Although large, whale sharks only eat plankton and small fish. To attract the whale sharks to come, the local fishermen using small baits throw small pieces of fish into the water. This strategy I think is very successful to bring whale sharks in a long time so it can be a stunning attraction for the tourists. The presence of tourists and the guaranteed food that continues to exist from local fishermen, making whale sharks always come every day to the beach Botubarani.

Do not forget to take the time to visit Gorontalo and enjoy the travel destination.

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