Location : East Kalimantan
Country : Indonesia
This location is very beautiful and stunning highly inappropriate for a family vacation who want to travel. This location is ideal and will never regret after the visit.
Pulau Derawan, or Derawan Island, is the main island of the Sangalaki archipelago that lies off the east coast of East Kalimantan. It has idyllic beaches and comes with excellent scuba diving options.
Teardrop-shaped Derawan Island covers 40,000 hectares of lush land and is surrounded by lovely beaches. Divers can swim with turtles, sea cows and all manner of fish. Manta rays, schooling tuna and leopard sharks have been spotted here. The best dive spots in Pulau Derawan are south and east of the island.
Non-divers may find Pulau Derawan slightly limiting unless they are into beaches and reading. There are, however, loads of species of seabirds and many rare plants to spot and the hiking inland is pretty rewarding. There are also several caves worth checking out on Pulau Derawan, while nearby Samama, Sangalaki, Maratua and Panjang are also interesting.
Pulau Derawan, a tiny palm and sand island off the coast of Indonesian Borneo, is famous for sea turtles.
Now, in general, when it comes to sea turtles, it’s wise to keep your expectations low. Maybe, just maybe, there’ll be a glimpse of a reptile or two sculling in the blue yonder, when you’re diving. Maybe, just maybe, over a long enough night, one will lay her eggs on shore.
The first words we heard in our guesthouse on Pulau Derawan? “Can you see the turtle?”
Over the course of four, very leisurely days, we’ve watched females laying their eggs by night. Helped store the eggs in the hatchery. Released new hatchlings into the great wide ocean. Sat on the dock watching turtles grazing, hunting, surfacing for air.
is so special that inside the island is vastly occuppied by a lake which hosts a bunch of stingless jellyfish which you can only find in 2 places: here and in Palau
You can swim in the lake and surrounded by jellyfish :)
When you get bored with jellyfish you can snorkel near the jetty area....there are lots of corals and colourful fishes...one of the best snorkeling spot
and of course if you dive there are many dive spot around the islands
sangalaki island
don't miss to visit sangalaki island. it's only about 2 hours from derawan by fisherman's boat and take even less time using the speedboat.
if you're lucky, you'll meet some mantarays. they will swim around your boat. we met like 10 of them! if you spend a nite on this island (no hotel on the island at the moment) you will see turtle laying their eggs on the beach every night. they're endangered species, so please don't disturb them.
Kakaban prehistory lake
The lake was originally the lagoon of an atoll, formed by corals over a period of two million years. As a result of movements in the earth's crust the coral reef was raised above the sea level, trapping 5 km2 of seawater within a 50 meter high ridge, effectively creating a landlocked marine lake.The organisms found in the lake are originally seawater species such as marine algae, sea anemones, jellyfish, sponges, sea cucumbers, crabs, and several small fish species. Seawater, which seems to enter the lake through small cracks and crevices in the surrounding reef rock, is diluted with rain water, to produce a brackish water environment. Over thousands of years the inhabitants of the lake have adapted to their unusual environment. No large channels or connecting caves have been discovered, so no larger animals have been able to enter or leave the lake for thousands of years. Marine scientists are still trying to solve the mystery of how the isolated and fragile lake ecosystem supports the requirements of its plant and animal communities. Only one other similar lake ecosystem is known; it is found on Palau in Micronesia, about 1000 km east of the Philippines.
source:www.traveldojo.com,www.virtualtourist.com
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