Pulau Derawan

A tropical paradise is located in one of the island province of East Kalimantan region, precisely in Berau and Sulawesi Strait, not far from the border with Malaysia. Derawan island became a marine tourism destination choice for you who love the beautiful beach with soft white sand and glistening crystal clear water. Moreover, added bonus benign encounter turtles are swimming around happily while we do the dive.
Sometimes when you sit down at the end of a wooden bridge that leads to the sea, we can see the green turtles and fro on the surface of clear water. Occasionally even these turtles seem to roam around the cottage is located on the coast of the island. By nightfall, some turtles went ashore and lay eggs there.Sea and moss color combination produces stunning shades of blue and green, as well as a small forest in the middle, makes this island so beautiful natural scenery presents a pity to pass up. What remains, deep memories.Dr. Carden Wallace of the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Australia has examined the wealth of sea and island Derawan find over 50 types of Arcropora (marine animals) in a coral reef. No one would if Derawan Island is famous as the top third of the world as an international dive destinationThis island is relatively less well known especially in the country because they need to fight to achieve it itself is quite complicated. You must first go to Balikpapan from Jakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta or Denpasar, to get to this island. Approximately two hours travel time of flight from Jakarta to Balikpapan.
From Aberdeen, you still have to fly to Cape Redeb for one hour with a small plane that served by KAL Star, Deraya or DAS. In addition, Cape Redeb can also be reached by sea, by boarding the ship from Samarinda or Tarakan to Tanjung Redeb followed by motorboat to the island Derawan hire with long travel approximately 2 hours. Many foreigners who just got off the plane at the airport Kalimarau, Tanjung Redeb Derawan went directly to the island by motorboat which was moored at a specific port. Alternatively it could be through land route from Balikpapan to Tanjung Batu and from there across to the island Derawan. It's just not a good choice for travel crossing itself takes up to a dozen hours with a relatively unpleasant terrain.
Even so, you know, just a lot of foreign tourists who already knew more about the existence of this exotic island. A number of Japanese tourists through travel from Tokyo who was there "shoot straight" go to Singapore or to Sabah then traveled to Aberdeen, then to Cape Redeb using small aircraft.
They utilize their time during the Derawan to dive, down the underwater beauty of the island which is the best location for diving. Moreover, the condition of the remote islands and "virgin" increasingly add charm anyone to enjoy it as long as possible.
It goes all the way, just in a distance of 50 meters from the beach, we already can see the beautiful coral reefs and colorful fish back and forth. Water is very clear. You can rent a snorkel for Rp 30 thousand per day. If you want to dive deeper, we can find the fish the more "exotic" such as grouper, red fish, kurisi fish, barracuda fish, sea cucumber, and clams. On the rocks at a depth of ten meters, there are coral known as "Blue Trigger Wall" because of the reef with a length of 18 meters is a lot of trigger fish (red-toothed trigger fishes).
Derawan island provides a place of lodging facilities (cottages), dive equipment rental and restaurants. There is also a low-cost lodging-inn run by local people. The range of prices ranging from Rp 45 thousand to 100 thousand USD / night.