TOUR TO SANGALAKI ISLAND, BERAU

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Sangalaki Island is located in Berau, East Kalimantan province. From a total of 31 islands in the Derawan Islands, Sangalaki Island is one of the four most famous island in addition to its own Derawan Island, Maratua Island, and Kakaban Island.
 Map Location Sangalaki Island
Sangalaki Island has an area of 15.9 hectares. Sangalaki Island has a flat beach with sand beach 12-15 meters wide with a slope between 6 ° -11 °. The sea water around the island Sangalaki very clear.

The main attraction Sangalaki island is underwater park with a rich variety of marine life. One of the typical marine life Sangalaki is Manta rays. Manta Rays are very rare animals, many tourists come to Sangalaki just to see this very unique animal. This tropical animal looks like a stingray, but both its whiskers unique work as wings.

Some favorite dive spots in this region, namely (see picture):

1. Entrance Channel,
2. Turtle Town,
3. Sandy Ridge,
4. rays Run,
5. Sherwood Forest,
6. rays Parade,
7. rays Avenue,
8. Eel Ridge,
9. Lighthouse and
10. The Rockies
11. Coral Gardens,

Besides Fish Manta Rays Sangalaki island there is also a turtle breeding. one can lay hundreds of eggs that produced 1 turtles, on this island every day can be flown 5 -10 turtle even more,

The way to the island Sangalaki
Although the island is a tourist area Sangalaki very beautiful and amazing, but it takes great effort and expense to get there. Even for residents east Kalimantan though. This is because the location is quite far from the island of Borneo, and is currently only accessible by sea.

The closest point on the island of Borneo is the city or port of Tanjung Batu located in Berau district of East Kalimantan province. From Tanjung Batu Sangalaki island reached by a small speadboat capacity of 4-6 people in a time of 1.5 hours. Author hire spead boat to the island one day tour of Tanjung batu - Maratua Island - Kakaban Island - Sangalaki Island - Pulau Derawan back to Tanjung Batu at a cost of Rp 1.8 million.

These costs through a fairly rigorous process negotiable, knowing the normal cost for the service Rp 2.5 million. Nego trick is not done at the port but in the parking lot. Besides that day happened to be quiet weekday travelers. In the parking lot there are few houses on stilts that stands on the edge of the sea. In the house there are several spead boat leaning. At that time the author negotiate with speed boat driver named brother Yan. Unfortunately the author forgot to record his mobile phone number.

 Parking place Tanjung Batu

To go to Tanjung Batu can be done by traveling overland from Tanjung Redeb city which is the capital of the district of Berau. Tanjung Redeb - Tanjung Batu takes about 2 hours. There is no public transport from Tanjung Redeb to Tanjung Batu. So you have to rent a car or using a travel. Travel costs around Rp 100,000 s / d Rp 150,000 per person.

To go to Tanjung Redeb can be traveled by using a landline or air. For landline very exhausting and time given the remoteness of Balikpapan. Perliraan about 24 hours of the time it takes from Balikpapan to Tanjung Redeb via landline.

Another route to the island is via Tarakan Sangalaki by sea. However, this route is much longer than the distance of the Tanjung batu - Sangalaki Island so that the cost for the boat speed will be much more expensive.

Currently on the island Maratua being built aircraft runway. The future is expected to be an alternative transport to the island Maratua.

There are several hotels and inns on the island Maratua. For the complete data of the hotels and inns please visit this Link