News of eastern Indonesia, an archipelago located in the province of West Papua, Papua New Guinea island. Papua New Guinea island shape similar to a bird when viewed on a map or satellite. A half part of Papua New Guinea is owned by Indonesia, that is Papua (a part which is contain its head). Papua is one of the big islands which is owned by Indonesia. Papua has the wealth and natural resources very much. One of the assets owned Papua Island is a tourist object tourism, namely Raja Ampat which is very potential as diving tour. Location of Raja Ampat is near the part of the bird's head. Raja Ampat is famous for having a wealth of marine life complete.
Waters which are in the Raja Ampat islands have more than 540 hard coral species, more than 100 species of fish, 700 species of molluscs. Data on the presence of marine life that is in the Raja Ampat islands was revealed by a team of experts from conservation International, the Nature Conservancy, the National Institute of Oceanography, and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Raja Ampat consists of four islands, namely Waigeo island, Misool island, Salawati island, and Batanta island. Travelers who come to Raja Ampat have different objectives, some have visit Raja Ampat to study science and the others is just want a vacation.
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Raja Ampat archipelago
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Although the target tourists in Raja Ampat is the tourists who like underwater, but tourists who do not have the courage to dive can also enjoy the Raja Ampat in other ways. Tourism in Raja Ampat islands besides complete marine life that is white sandy beach, unique animals such as birds of paradise, rare plant species, the various types of orchids, and a group of karst mount. Karst is a Yugoslavia language, that means a form of the earth's surface that is generally characterized by the presence of depression is closed, surface drainage, and caves. It should only exist in the sea. The existence of karst mount in Raja Ampat and various regions in Indonesia showed that many islands in Indonesia, which was once the seabed. It is often associated with the truth about the story of the prophet nuh with his ship where the disaster occurred, that is the whole of the world is covered by water.
In addition to rich marine life, there are some residual relic of prehistory and history on the sea floor Raja Ampat. Prehistoric is remains in the form of a hand stamp which has an estimated age of about 50,000 years. The hand stamp to be near the ocean surface. According to the story, the hand stamp becomes a sign track the spread of humans from the west to the Papua island. While the rest of the history that is under the sea Raja Ampat is the aircraft used during World War 2. The rest of the sunken planes can be found in the Wai island.
Raja Ampat tourist sites can be reached from the capital city of Indonesia, namely Jakarta use the plane to Sorong. There are two options for exploring the Raja Ampat is to follow the tour by boat phinisi or stay at Raja Ampat Dive Lodge. Unfortunately, the cost of which is required to be able to exploring and diving in Raja Ampat islands are quite expensive.
