Manado Diving Holidays, Diving in Manado, Bunaken Island, Lembeh Strait, Bangka Island, Indonesia Diving

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The Hotel Santika is the closest dive resort to Bunaken National Park. The resort is about 30 minutes from Manado town and 40 minutes from the international airport.

Special Features

Location overlooking Bunaken

101 rooms, 28 sea view and 1 suite

Thalassa dive on-site

Choice of BB, HB or FB basis

Pool/Internet/Restaurant/Massage

Great for groups and budget divers

Prices from

£1,719

Including flights and transfers

Diving from

£49

10 Days Diving

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Tasik Ria Resort

Whether you plan to travel as an individual, a couple, a family or a dive group the Tasik Ria Resort is the perfect destination! This is an intimate resort where comfort is paramount.

Special Features

Good value mid-range resort

Set amongst towering coconut palms

Full board basis inc 3 dives per day

Choice of standard rooms or villas

Pool with bar/Bar/Internet/Restaurant

Great for all types of divers

Prices from

£1,844

Including flights and transfers

Diving from

£49

10 Days Diving

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Kima Bajo Resort & Spa

The Kima Bajo Resort & Spa is nestled amongst undulating coconut grooves overlooking the tranquil Wori Bay and just 25 minutes from Manado international airport.

Special Features

A boutique resort with 19 villas

Great for those seeking some luxury

Eco-Divers on-site

Full board diver basis

Nice pool area overlooking Bunaken

Pool/Bar/Restaurant/Spa/Room Svc

Prices from

£2,075

Including flights and transfers

Diving from

£49

10 Days Diving

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Manado is the capital of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. Manado is located at the Bay of Manado, and is surrounded by a mountainous area. The city has about 600,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Manado is divided into five districts Wenang, Sario, Malalayang, Molas, and Mapanget. The quality of the diving in North Sulawesi is hinted at by its popularity among world class underwater photographers. The material for Mike Severns’ incredibly beautiful coffee table dream book Sulawesi Seas was shot in these waters. National Geographic film crews have been calling, and professional photography workshops and seminars are held here.

As the largest city in the region, Manado is a key tourist transit point for visitors. Ecotourism is the biggest attraction in Manado. Scuba diving and snorkelling on the nearby island of Bunaken are popular attractions. Other places of interest are nearby Lake Tondano, Lokon Volcano, Klabat Volcano and Mahawu Volcano.

The richness and diversity of marine life in Bunaken Marine Park are the reasons tourism is blooming and developing in Manado now and marks a new era in this part of paradise on Earth.

Manado is the main city on the Northern tip of the island of Sulawesi. It serves as a base for diving in the famous marine park around Bukanen Island, and as the starting point for going to the Lembeh Strait on the east coast or venturing north to the Sangihe archipelago.

Bukanen-Manado Tua Marine Park and the Lembeh Strait and Kungkungan Bay areas are known chiefly for their macro life, small creatures that live on the reef and treat the patient diver to a variety of colours and shapes that defy the wildest imagination. Bukanen is dominated by great reef walls without too much current, and the addition of big fish to the picture. Lembeh gets a consistent current that feeds all manner of marine critters with plankton, making it a haven for reef life.

For exciting liveaboard diving, don’t miss the Sangihe string of volcanic islands to the north of Sulawesi. Either Manado or Bitung in the Lembeh Strait are possible starting points.

Manado Diving Holidays - Diving Information

Manado’s marine environment is the most varied, rich and incredible diving in the world along with other destinations in North Sulawesi. The seas are fringed by extensive coral reefs and surrounded by a very rich marine bio-diversity.

A dominating volcanic landscape creates a unique backdrop for you to discover North Sulawesi. The peninsula is full of extensive, rich and diverse coral reefs particularly around Bunaken Manado Tua Marine Park at the northwest tip of the peninsula.

Bunaken Manado Tua Marine Park comprises of a group of five islands: Bunaken, Siladen, Nain, Montehage and Manado Tua. The five islands in the park are distinctly different; Bunaken has a deep, calm bay sheltering fertile coral formations. The fauna on this reef flat, edge and wall is extraordinary and large pelagics patrol along the steep walls.

The marine park is home to 22 official dive sites with an outstanding variety of both fish and soft coral marking this area as one of the most bio diverse marine environments in the world.

When diving in Manado you will get very close to some of the resident inhabitants of the region including schools of barracudas, jacks, sea turtles, sea snakes, reef sharks and napoleon wrasses.

Manado Diving Season

Best conditions are more or less between the months of April and November but it is possible to dive Bunaken all year round without running into conditions that are less than acceptable.

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