Thousand Islands, Indonesia

Thousand Islands, Indonesia Thousand Islands National Park is one of the representatives of the marine nature conservation area in Indonesia, located approximately 45 km north of Jakarta.There are 78 large-small islands with a height of not more than three meters above sea level., And it is a coral island chain.Hundreds of years ago, the islands were formed on the colonies of coral animals are already dead. The colony was initially grown on the shallow sea floor, and the upper layer to the surface and were weathered. Then on top of the rock land, growing pioneer species of shrubs, trees and there was some kind of land. Land in the islands is not the same as the land consisting of soil. Similarly, the wealth of plant and its animal.Most of the beaches in the park is protected by mangrove forests, where the living monitor lizards, snakes and pythons gold ring.Behind the phenomena and the secrets of nature, actually save the Thousand Islands group of the natural beauty that is captivating. Symphony of tiny islands of green, waves, colored golden sunlight at dusk will certainly reassure those in the Thousand Islands National Park.Thousand islands not only have beauty under water, thus becoming one of the marine tourism destination Go magazine National Geoghraphic 2009, but has the potential for historical tourism.

Tourism potential of this history will be much more interesting when the Directorate of Protection of the Underwater willing to hand over objects of cultural heritage sites under the removal of water. Therefore, the Thousand Islands District Government needs to make a museum of history in the Thousand Islands.History of the Thousand Island tour includes the tomb of Habib bin Ahmad bin Ali Al Aidid Zen Island Grill (d. May 15, 1895), former Assistant Resident Office Duizen Eilanden Island Grill (built in the 1880s), the tomb of legendary White Blood Island Grill, Syarifudin Maulana Sharif tomb (relatives of the Sultanate of Banten) on Coconut Island, and the tomb of Sultan Mahmud Zakaria (relatives of the Sultanate of Banten) on Long Island.In 2011 and has established the Office of Ward Island Grill is new, so the old buildings can be revitalized into a museum of history and culture to store objects of cultural heritage, and a brief history of the Thousand Islands diorama. While the BCB sites in the waters of the Thousand Islands should remain preserved as a site and published continuously, so the main attraction for divers, as contained in Raja Ampat.
  

Some of the islands / attractions to visit:
Scout Island, Island Bush Leaves, Coconut Island and Island Grill: Seeing turtle breeding, observing animals and marine tourism.
Scout Island, Opak Island, Coral Island proud. Wreck diving the sunken ships.
Long Island, Island Princess, Island Rainbow and Silver Island: Holidays in private marine.
Ant Island, Coral Island proud, Kroja Coral Island, Pulau Kotok Besar, Pulau Kotok and Pulau Gosong Small Game: For diving and snorkeling.