Sangakali Island, East Kalimantan Nature Tourism

Info Update,Indonesia: Not many know that in the northern part of East Kalimantan, precisely in Berau regency, there is a very beautiful island that is Derawan Islands.

Islands consisting of 28 small island offers beautiful beaches and stunning underwater world, among them Island Sangakali.

Charitable is a small island covering an area about 13 ha. With a relaxed way, you can circle the island with the status of Nature Park (TWA) is only within 30 minutes.
During the trip, you will enjoy the white sandy beaches and charming sea. In the morning and evening, you can also enjoy the natural phenomena of sunrise and sunset are amazing.

Not only that. As long as you around the island, you can also see a variety of wildlife that you've probably never seen before. Such as coconut crabs, monitor lizards, eagles bondol, birds singed Philippines, reef egrets, birds pergam sea and shore birds / other sea. Along the coast, you will also find various types of mollusks (clams) in various shapes and colors.

In addition, the Charitable Island also has a very beautiful underwater world, coral reefs in this island is one of the best in the world. Average coral cover was 26.75% Charitable Island to hard coral reefs and 42.50% for life.

This is the location of water areas with the highest diversity of coral mushrooms in Berau MPA (Wiryawan et al, 2005). Charitable Island waters also contained 1051 species of reef fish and five species of seagrass.

TWAL (Nature Park Sea) Charitable Island is the island's most important nesting green turtles in Southeast Asia, maybe even the world. Every night throughout the year, there are 10-30 turtles nesting on the island of Charitable.

To watch this attraction, you have to spend the night on the island of turtle nesting activity Charitable because you can only meet at night.

Another uniqueness of the Island Charitable is the aggregation of manta rays in the waters of this island. Manta rays are the types of stingrays are the main food of plankton. Charitable waters have the highest abundance of zooplankton compared to other water areas in the Berau MPA.

The high abundance of zooplankton, it makes this area as a manta ray aggregation of the most high. And to witness this unique fish, you have to dive.

Charitable travel to the island can be reached by land and air. Perjanan mileage land from the provincial capital of Samarinda to Tanjung Redeb city is about 700 km with the accessibility of the road 'being'. Types of vehicles that can be used is a car rental at a cost of about Rp3.000.000 to travel back and forth.

While public transport available are buses with a capacity of 25 people with a ticket price of Rp. 125.000/orang. Overland travel time if using a rental car is about 15 hours, whereas if using public transport can be up to 20 hours.

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