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Indonesia Diving Liveaboard

March 7, 2010 - Posted in Indonesia Vacations

source: www.divingseasafari.com

Indonesia have far-flung islands, with over 17,000 islands, streching more than 5,000 km from west to east, with coastline more than 80,000 km washed by tropical water, Indonesia has developed resorts in tandem with the establishment of regular air connections, and in many of these diving and snorkeling are given priority. Outside flights to Manado have firther opened up this fine dive site, and liveaboard boats have also made debut, offering divers the chance to explore really remote areas like Banda Sea.

Indonesia is the least known of the world’s best dive locations. Introduction of scuba gear and the beginning of dive operations in Indonesiago back nearly 20 years, and each year more new, exiting locations are opening their doors.

Sea Safari Liveaboard dive boats have made a big impact on the scope and range of diving. Sea Safari Liveaboard operations take divers to Banda Sea, Manado, Derawan, Sangalaki, Komodo, Flores, Sumbawa, Bali, Menjangan island, Bunaken, Lombok, Papua, Raja Ampat, Sorong and other dive sites in east Indonesia. Sea Safari boats/vessels are pinisi cruises, the legend cruise of Indonesia traditional sailor.

Pinisi cruise is becoming popular in Indonesia, especially in Bali with holiday makers, cruise operators who also enjoy diving and liveaboards. In Indonesia, liveaboard diving operation take diver to Banda, Komodo, Alor, Raja Ampat, Nusa Tenggara, Lombok, Bali, Ambon, Borneo, Sangalaki, Derawan and others more than hundreds dive sites in Indonesia.

When diving started in Indonesia region, it was cheap hobby once you had bought a regulator and other basic gear. Today, the relationship between learning to dive, buyng the gear and getting going has changed. The gear is getting more sophisticated but less costly, dive courses are becoming more competitively piced and the cost of diving itself is getting more expensive – mainly because today’s diver is a more sophisticated animal and not the hardly aficinado of yesteryear.

Interestingly, Indonesia’s most popular tourist destinations, Bali, also has some excellent diving, including superb werk and in Bali, number of dive operations in highest. But good diving is not exactly located in your hotel lobby. In 5 star resort have opened up in nearly every corner of the island, offering serious divers opportunity to undertake dive safari, stringing together a number of fantastic dive days without sacrificing time, energy or comfort.

Sea Safari as liveaboard and diving operator over Indonesia archipelago have international standart emergeny procedure in place. Generally, bert practice is to dive conservatively, safety and always to make a decompression stop on ascent. Reef are rich enough that you will never be bored apending a few extra minutes as the end of a dive exploring shallows.

Alexandra
http://www.articlesbase.com/destinations-articles/indonesia-diving-liveaboard-680820.html

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Eco-Tourism in Thousand Islands, Indonesia

February 4, 2010 - Posted in Indonesia Vacations

thejakartapost.com has recently published an article on eco-resorts in the Thousand Islands. It sounds perfect for tropical Indonesia vacations, far away from the poluted cities.

Here are a few excerpts from the much longer article:

 

A touch of eco-paradise

Kanupriya Kapoor

Changing your lifestyle to make it more environmentally friendly is easier said than done, but eco-resorts such as one on Pulau Macan in the Thousand Islands make such changes pleasant and rewarding.

While environmental issues are finally getting the media and government attention they deserve, the urgency of the steadily deteriorating state of our planet has yet to permeate political and social realms.

And people (especially in urban areas), bombarded constantly with warnings and reprimands about their impacts on the environment, are often reluctant to adjust their lifestyles, are ill-informed about how they can do so, or are just discouraged by the blatant negligence of relevant authorities…

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…Roderick des Tombes, a Jakarta-born self-proclaimed eco-warrior, is working toward – and succeeding in – constructing a lifestyle that is beneficial to himself and the environment. The eco-resort he manages on Pulau Macan – a tiny island among the Thousand Islands archipelago – is a business venture that makes environmentalism inextricable from the indulgent pleasures of an island vacation.

Located an hour-and-something boat ride from Jakarta’s Ancol Marina, the Tiger Islands Village & Eco Resort (Pulau Macan) is a little dot on the map of the Indonesian archipelago – and by “little” I mean you can circle it on foot in 10 minutes at a leisurely pace – that aptly encapsulates the immense diversity that the archipelago boasts…HCpackedHotelDealsBanner468x60 Eco Tourism in Thousand Islands, Indonesia

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…As the boat slows to dock at Pulau Macan, one can feel Jakarta melt away – the unending traffic congestion; the growing rudeness and disorder; the deadlines, projects, malls; the suffocation – all of it. The idyllic resort island and its deserted twin, known together as the Tiger Islands, promise everything that visitors undoubtedly expect – peace, quiet, solitude and a place to get away from it all.

Startlingly blue waters, speckled with the other islands of the Thousand Islands chain, surround Pulau Macan. The kinds of fish one only sees on Discovery Channel swim by the edge of the island with a lazy, sometimes unabashed, curiosity. White sands that are warmed just enough by sunlight seeping in through the high canopy pave a leisurely walk towards one’s cabin or hut, as the case may be.

The island’s accommodation ranges from red brick cabins and wooden bungalows on the interior, to driftwood huts and, for the extra-adventurous souls, spacious tents at the waterfront. The buildings have been designed to blend in perfectly with the immediate environment, and have thus been fitted with driftwood furniture and a minimum of electrical appliances, all of which are energy-efficient. For those wary of the tropical heat, the breeze off the Java Sea is complemented by the architecture of the cabins and ensures pleasant temperatures throughout the day…

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Doesn’t this just fill you with vacation fever? Escape the cold winter to soak up the sun for a couple of weeks, and know that you’re doing something environmentally friendly… what better way to spend your vacation. I’ll definitely check this place out.

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Bird Flu Virus is Now Known to Have Evolved in Two Forms

July 17, 2009 - Posted in Indonesia Vacations

What was only a supposition, now it is proven, that the bird flu virus has evolved in two strains that are distinct genetically speaking. This is not good news as it might cause even more deaths among humans and the researchers will have to work double for finding an effective vaccine against these two forms of bird flu virus.

Between the year 2003 and 2005, US scientists have been collecting and analyzing more than 300 samples of H5N1 virus taken from infected birds and humans. They discovered that in 2003 and 2004 the human and bird population was affected by the same type of virus that was active in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. But in 2005 a new strain of H5N1 virus appeared and infected people from Indonesia. This virus is in a continuous genetic development and as time goes by our treatment option become more and more restrained.

Since 2003 the virus affected 180 people and killed 100 from all over the world. Doctors are afraid that a pandemic could start if the virus is not kept under control and hope that this virus will remain a bird virus and will not change into a human one. If the virus gains the ability of transmitting itself from human to human then the whole world population is in danger.

Fortunately, according to the scientists those two forms of the virus do not have the possibility of spreading easily from on person to another.

Until now the US scientists have been trying to find a vaccine that will kill both viruses. The vaccine will be 100% definitive once the exact form of a pandemic virus is known. The scientists believe that one vaccine could offer partial protection against the other type of virus strain if it works against the first one.

Scientists need to move fast because the viruses have the ability of changing their status and of developing very fast, gaining even the possibility of transmitting themselves from one person to another.

The thing is that no one had expected for the virus to travel around the world so easily and to mutate so fast creating another strain. But scientists are confident that by keeping the virus under control in birds they can find a suitable vaccine in a year or two. As long as the governments work together and help each other there is no need for panic as there is still hope for a cure.

For more information about bird flu or even about bird flu prevention please review this page http://www.bird-flu-info-center.com/bird-flu-prevention.htm

Groshan Fabiola
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/bird-flu-virus-is-now-known-to-have-evolved-in-two-forms-121129.html

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