12 days standard fullboard

( also available deluxe, VIP or SUITE )

 

 

ALL IN PACKAGE INCLUDE :   
- Boat transfer Berau - Derawan - Berau    
- Complete accomodation (Twin share basis) meals and drink, except beer and soft drink.   
 

Suite room
Facilities ( AC,hot water system,tv,living room,refrigerator and room with
sea view, room more bigger then VIP )

 

VIP room
Facilities ( AC,hot water system,tv,living room,refrigerator and room with
sea view )

 

Deluxe room
Facilities ( AC,hot water system and room with sea view )

 

Standard room
Facilities ( AC,cold water and room with garden view )

 

Derawan Dive Resort have Twenty Seven Traditional Kalimantan style cottages.
For Every rooms Air Conditioner is available, hot water system for deluxe and VIP room. Also available TV set, dry kitchen and Family rooms for VIP.
Our Floating Restaurant for 75 guest capacity with superb sea view and delicious "all you can eat" BBQ, Chinese, European, Japanese or local meal set, all you can eat meal set is applied for package guest

 

Resort Dive Center is located on the beach facilitate with reliable dive equipment rental and proffesional dive guides. The dive center use 3 Bauer air compressors for refilling dive tank.
For professional underwater photographers, available camera room to recharge batteries and set up camera at the dive centre.
Four twin engine diving boats (2 medium size boats with 85 HP engine and 2 large size boats with 115 HP engine).
Three twin engine transport boats from / to mainland borneo - derawan (2 medium size boats with 115 HP engine and 1 lage size boat with 200 HP engine).

 

The Terrains at Derawan are varied-from walls and fringing reef to caverns. Big green turtles (chelonia mydas), whitetip leopard and nurse sharks, schooling barracudas, napoleon wrasses, cuttle fish, spanish mackerel, jacks and batfishes, and ornamental reef fishes hang out in record densities and diversity.

 

The Island of Kakaban is an excepfora marine environment. An uplifting in the area during Holocene transgression, about 19000 BC has left 5 sq kilometers of seawater trapped within a 50 meter (165 ft) ridge, turning the area into a landlocke marine lake. The only other know lake of such nature found in Palau, Micronesia, is a desert compared to kakaban

 

Some of the strangest species and typical behavios are observed in the lake.
Through millenium, they have adapted into an ecosystem that is totally unique to the brackish water environment.

 

The lake is teeming with at least 4 species of stingless jelly fish including one of an upside down species of Cassiopea (possibly Cassiopea Xamachana).

 

About three species of Halimeda green algae cover the botom, and mangrove roots live side by side with tunicates, sponges, tube worms, bihalves, crustacean, anemones, sea cucumbers, sea snakes and at least five known species of gobies. Unidentified species are in abundance. Dr. Thomas Tomascik from Canada has aptly called ths place a Biological Paradise.

 

The mystery of how lake`s plant and animals are able to survive in this isolated system is a subject that marine scientists and geologist bickers about.

 

Thousand of barracudas, blue fined tunas and big sharks are also found at Kakaban,s Barracuda Point.

 

Maratua Island
Imagine you are sitting on a ringside seat, the arena an underwater colosseum at 100 feet, beneath you and abyssal plunge beyond the depth of mortal endurance.
 
The arrival of a lone 7 foot great barracuda heralds for the show to begin.

 

A dark cloud emerges from the distance, like an uprising tornado, as it twirls toward you, the dark mass metamorphosizes into silvery screen of barracudas, thousand... uncountable.

 

Eight spotted eagle rays pear from the liquid information whilst heavy bodied gray sharks arrive at an electrifiying velocity to break up a school of big tooth trevalley.

 

The water boils, your adrenalin reaches a record high as a huge giant black spotted Bull raylooms over you to cross the terrain of golden and red coral trees.

 

Large Dog-tooth tunas and mackerels make up the chorus line to fleeting appearence of hammerheads and mantas, this show is the greatest show on earth beneath the sea, the performance limited to twice daily everyday of the year.
I saw this performance thrice, and after having over 8000 sojourns is tropical water, this site is among the very best in my experience. The location was discovered by Mr. Nawawi - he graciously shared this secret domain of deep with us.  

 

Sangalaki is the world Capital of Mantas. At Sangalaki the familiar set of Manta Rays emerges from all directions.
Their wing tips breaking the surfaces at regular interval. Snorkelling is the way to interact with this gentle plankton feeders.

 

Totally unperturbed by your presence, they swim in eurythymy and sometimes glide right up to you before making a sharp nose-dive into the blue.

 

It is not unusual to find them encircling you.Though most of them are about 3,5 meters (12 ft) wide with a white belly, there a few black giant with a 6 meters (20 ft) wing span - we refer to them fondly as the Darth Vaders.
The sensation of looking through their giant mouths cannot be described, it must be experienced.  

 

It is totally out of this world, so much so that one published writer reported that he was whacked by his own adrenaline.