Indonesia Tourism Kakaban Island: Swimming with stingless jellyfish

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Kakaban Island, Indonesia, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which houses thousands of unique fresh water jellyfish. Alain St. Ange from St. Ange consulting in the Seychelles made a trip to Indonesia and reported:

I had the pleasure of visiting Kakaban Island recently and swimming in its freshwater lake with these amazing jellyfish.

The Province of Berau facilitated this trip for me and I was being accompanied by Agus Tantomo, the Vice Premier of Berau. It was an experience I not only appreciated but enjoyed thoroughly. I strongly recommend a visit to Kakaban Island and the Region to every nature-loving person.

CNN Travel recently wrote that Kakaban Islands rated third place in the list of the ten best dive sites in Asia.

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They wrote:- “It’s been said that we know more about the moon than we know about our own oceans. That’s probably total rubbish. In any case the moon is about as interesting as a cold, hard ball of rock floating around empty space. The oceans on the other hand can captivate even the most cynical of aesthetes. But they are fragile things.

Human activities such as overfishing and pollution threaten an estimated 95% of Southeast Asia’s coral reefs, says the World Resources Institute. Climate change is also affecting them. Thailand’s authorities have even been closing popular dive sites to allow them to recover from coral bleaching.”

Moreover, on the famous Kakaban Island, CNN Travel wrote:-

“Stingless jellyfish are some of the more unusual creatures to be found in the seas around the Derawan Islands, which consist of four inhabited islands and two uninhabited islands off the east coast of Borneo…Free from natural predators, the jellyfish lost their defense systems over thousands of years of evolution”.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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