Derawan Archipelago Tour Guide Borneo Kalimantan

VISIT & EXPLORE DERAWAN ARCHIPELAGO ISLANDS

Kalimantan Beauty, The Derawan archipelago contains a few famous touristic tropical paradise islands as Kakaban, Sangalaki, Maratua and Derawan island itself. The white sand beaches and palm trees surrounded by bleu lagoon sea is a dive and snorkel or leisure wonder destination of Indonesia Borneo island.

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VISIT & EXPLORE KALIMANTAN BOUNTY BEACH ISLANDS

Derawan archipelago is the Sea world and bounty white palm beach beauty of Indonesia Borneo Island, it is rich of fish and turtles in the streched coral reefs covering the coastal line of Kalimantan. The Island Derawan is know of its nomadic Bajau Tribe settlement, stilt fishing houses build in the sea, and her whale sharks point. Sangalaki Island has its Turtle beach and huge Manta ray, neighboring Kakaban island has a yelly fish lake and beautiful coral reef wall offshore. Maratua as the largest island in the Derawan archipelago has streched white palm beaches a and forms a bounty oase paradise of Borneo. The luxury private island resorts in the atoll of Maratua island as Nabucco Resort, Nunukan Resort and the Virgin Cocoa Resort, are dive resorts with the best dive spots of the archipelago with the most luxury comfort you could wish

DERAWAN TOUR

Tour Package Duration 04 Days / 03 Nights

Day 01: BERAU, DERAWAN ISLAND (D)
Upon arrival at Tanjung Redep airport, meeting service and transfer to harbor to board a speed boat and cross the Sea to Derawan Island, when lucky dolphins dance along the speedboat ride. Check in at Resort, afternoon possibility for snorkeling or a Derawan village sightseeing tour.

Day 02 & 03: DERAWAN ISLAND, SANGALAKI TURTLE BEACH, KAKABAN JELLY FISH LAKE (BLD)
Early in the morning by boat to visit Sangalaki Island which is called the Capital of The Manta Rays, many kinds of exotic fish species can be explored in the coral reefs surounding the island blue lagoon sea, from the huge Mantas, Napoleons, purple sea horses, tunitates, dwarf scorpion fishes, and not to forget the Turtles, for those who wish to spent the night at Sangalaki, could explore the Turtles lay their eggs at the beach.

Day 04: DERAWAN, BERAU (B)
After breakfast start our trip cross the sea by boat to Berau for your flight to your next holiday destination.

Derawan Travel Facts

Derawan Island is a small bounty paradise archipelago of white palm beaches, surrounded by crystal blue lagoon sea at the coast in East Kalimantan Berau region, of the Indonesian Borneo island. The archipelago is a maritime reserve of about 40.000 hectares rare flora and fauna, such as scaled turtles, belimbing turtles and sea cows.
This Island is occupied by the former nomadic Bajau people, known as the seamen. The preserved sea gardens are beautiful coastal forests are inhabited by sea birds, iguanas, swallows and various crabs habitate the caves. The sea offers possibility for swimming, snorkeling, scuba divingwaters, and other water sports. Diving programs to Sangalaki or Kakaban Islands give you the occasion to swim with elegant mantas. Sangalaki houses also a Turtle Foundation that ensures to lay their eggs as a future safeguard, with your visit you help donate the foundation and preserve the turtles survival of the Derawan Islands Archipelago.
The most thrilling dive spot is found around Kakaban Island, with the Barracuda Point and the colourful wall of Gorganian Forest.
Kakaban Island has an unique jellyfish lake and forms a highlight of e trip to this Indonesia Borneo beach archipelago.

Derawan Weather
Day Temperatures 27 °– 32°C
Night Temperatures 20 °– 25°C
Humidity 80%-90%
Rainfall 4,000mm per year
Wet Months October & June
Dry Months February & August ( but expect daily rain )
During the dry months, the soft tropical storm could make the sea journey a rough adventure.

Derawan Accommodation
The accommodation at Derawan is diverse from a Luxery Resort to simple Lodges

Travel Time & Distance East Kalimantan – Derawan Archipelago
Berau – Tanjung Batu Habor 3 hours by car
Tanjung Batu Harbor to Derawan half hour by speed boat
Derawan to Sangalaki 2 hours by speedboat
Sangalaki to Kakaban 15 minutes by speedboat

How To Get There
Berau international airport with direct Flights to Balikpapan, Samarinda, Jakarta, Surabaya, Semarang, Tarakan, and connection to Derawan Overland and by speedboat

Things To Bring
Long wear
Towel, soap and personal needs
Torch/Flash light
Waterproof bag (for documents and electronics)

Explore Derawan Maritime Sea Life & Visit Bajau Tribe to discover the Culture
Derawan Culture is of the nomadic seamen Bajau tribe who are the ancient sea fishermen, living in harmony with the sea, in their stilt sea houses.
Explore the exotic underwater life of Derawan Archipelago islands along East Kalimantan coast, of, green Turtles, Mantas, Napoleons, purple sea horses, tunitates, dwarf scorpion fishes, scorpionfishes, jawfishes, mandarin fishes, frogfishes and ribbon eels, and jelly fish, and the coral reefs.

General Information
East Kalimantan Province area is 145,534 square kilometers, with a 3 million population

Maratua Island

Maratua is the largest island with it's 2.400 hectares in the Derawan archipel, and has far the most beautiful scenery. The long streched white beaches, along the palm trees and blue sea, make it a bounty paradise island perfect as a leisure destination after a jungle trek or cultural trip at main land of Kalimantan. Maratua count two villages of the Bajau tribe also known as the seamen, the small lake, caves, and mangrove forest at the island make it more diverse then the other islands in the archipelago. This Island has wide coral reefs and is very suitable for canoe trips, water skiing, and scuba diving. Maratua Island is also known as Sandalwood Island, and is reachable from Tanjung Redep Berau by boat or by flight. Recently lots of luxury beach resorts and budget guesthouses were builed to support the Tourism booming.

Kakaban Jelly Fish Lake

Kakaban Island is know of it's mangrove fringed lake inside which is a bit above the sea level, the lake itself is about 17 meters deep of brackish water with a green algae bottom, sea life diverse from four types of jellyfish, snakes, orange purple and yellow clams on the branches. The Dive points around the islands as the barracuda Point has sharks, leopards fish, tunas, snappers and offcourse large schools of barracudas, the Blue Cave point is a cave of about 120 meters long with at the end a Blue sea light, and is only for the experienced divers. From the Dive points the Gorganian Forest view is amazing.

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Sangalaki Turtle Island

Sangalaki as one of the Islands, is a attractive dive destination as it is known for the large manta rays that come here to feed their plankton. The Manta 's show mostly up at the north part of Sangalaki Islands, and come from all directions. The Manta's are often seen at the surface waterline, and even when snorkeling the Manta's can be easy seen. Here you can swim with the elegant moving Manta' s which have a wing weight of more then two meters. Sangalaki has dive reefs from 4 to 40 meters deep, and a serie of ridges with sandy bottom. Coral and gorgonian sea fans with reef fishes, are part of Sangalaki 's beauty dive side, near some ship wreaks. Fishes that can be found near Sangalaki are several species of scorpionfishes, jawfishes, mandarin fishes, frogfishes and ribbon eels. Sangalaki is famous of it's breeding ground of the green turtles. Sangalaki houses a Turtle Foundation that ensures to lay their eggs as a future safeguard, with your visit you help donate survival and have the opportunity to learn more about the Turtles and the Foundations work. For visitors who like to spot the Turtles, at night the turtles come ashore on the beach to lay their eggs and small baby turtles can be seen regularly, when they hatch.

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