Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort & Spa

Go diving
The large fully equipped and professional on-site dive centre offers 3 boat dives per day or 2 morning boat dives with the afternoon spent exploring the house reef which is accessible from the private jetty.  Nitrox is offered free of charge to certified guests, and there is also a full range of dive courses available.

Diving is from one of the six brand-new, purpose-built dive boats which offer freshwater deck showers, catering facilities, flushing WCs and excellent facilities for photographers.  Diving groups are small groups of 4 with 1 dive guide.

With over 90 accessible dive sites from the resort, there is an incredible variety of diving available, from dramatic vertical walls covered in colourful hard corals with passing sharks, turtles and rays to fascinating muck diving sites with weird and wonderful critters hidden in the sea bed.

Tangkoko National Park
Tangkoko National Park is home to the world’s smallest nocturnal primate –the Tarsius Spectrum- which is endemic to Sulawesi. This tiny little creature measures around 15cm from head to tail. With a bit of luck, you may also stumble across black tailless macaques, cuscus and the large hornbill bird, amongst other flora and fauna.

This trip is a nice way to end your stay at Dive Into Lembeh, allowing you time to off-gas before flying the next day. The tour starts after lunch, so you can still dive in the morning, and you will be back at the resort around 19:00pm, in time for dinner. We strongly advise people to wear long trousers with socks and trainers, as you will go into the rainforest where there are mosquitoes, ants and other insects.

The guide cost per person for this trip is US $75 and includes a local lunch, bottled water, English speaking guide and air-conditioned transportation. A minimum of two people is required to run the trip.

Minahasa Highland Tour
Full day tour commencing after breakfast at around 08:00AM and you will be back in the resort in time for dinner. We take you to visit a variety of sights around the highlands of North Sulawesi, including:-

• “Sawangan”, an ancient cemetery with beautifully decorated graves called “Waruga”, that each tell their own story.
• The small village of Woloan, where you can see the Minahasan traditional houses being built, ready for delivery or shipping.
• The traditional food and flower market in Tomohon.
• The high hill of “Rurukan”, with views that stretch as far as the Lembeh Strait in the distance.
• The beautiful “Lake Tondano”, where the mountain air is cool (600 m above sea level) and where you have a beautiful view of the lake and can see the hot spring.
• “Lake Linau” –also known as the three coloured lake- because of the volcanic gas around the shores. 

The guide cost per person for this trip is US $90 and includes a local lunch, bottled water, English speaking guide and air-conditioned transportation. A minimum of two people is required to run this trip.

Please note that at some of the above mentioned sights, it is greatly appreciated to leave a small donation for the local communities, which are not included in the cost of the tour. Please also note: you are in the Minahasa highlands and they do sell local “delicacies” (think bats, jungle-rats and dogs), so please let your guide know if you do not want to see these and we will avoid this section of the market.