Pantar Marine Park offers amazing underwater
life to visitors. The underwater life of this marine park is comparable to the
most popular marine park in the world, such as those in Carribean Islands or
local marine parks such as Bunaken in Sulawesi or Raja Ampat in Papua. The marine
park has numerous species of fish and other sea creatures. You can enjoy the
beautiful sea creatures when you dive or snorkel in the underwater of the sea.
You will see an amazing panorama that you may have never seen before. The
beauty of this marine park offers you challenging adventure as well as amazing
experience.
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Location
Pantar
Marine Park is situated in Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara. The beauty of this
marine park has attracted many visitors to visit it. Hence, flight toward
Kupang and Alor is available every day. You can go by airplane from Kupang to
Alor. The flight is available every day. The flight is served by Transmusa
every day. While Merpati Airline serves flight to Alor four times a week.
From Kupang, the departure
flight schedule is early in the morning, i.e. from 06.00 to 07.00. However, you
must prepare yourself just in case that the flight is delayed. When the weather
is not conducive, the flight may be postpone to the afternoon or it may even be
cancelled. There are also motorboat from Kupang to Alor twice a week.
Activities
There
are various activities you can do in Pantar Marine Park. One of the most
popular activities is scuba diving. The marine park has many diving spots. They
are 26 spots, including Half Moon Bay, Crocodile Rook, The Edge, Cave Point, Peter's
Prize, Shark Close and many more. All of the 26 diving spots offer you the most
exotic underwater panorama.
For example, Shark Close
diving spot offers you an amazing shark view. You can encounter and get closer
to sharks living in the underwater of this marine park. Apart from diving
activity, you can snorkel or swim. While other than water activities, you can
do many other interesting things, such as village trip. This means you will
explore the culture and the traditional way of life of the local people. You
will learn further all about the condition of the local people along with the
area where they live.
Accommodations
Pantar
Marine Park provides many hotels and homestay to spend the night. They include La
Petite Kepa Homestay on Kepa Island. There are also popular hotels offering
convenient bedroom such as Hotel Adi Dharma, Hotel Pelangi Indah and Hotel Nusa
Kenari Indah. When you decide to spend the night in the hotel, it means you
have more time to explore the marine park. You can spare your time to find
beautiful local Alor woven fabric. You can buy the best quality of this woven
fabric at Alor Kecil Village, about 12 km from Kalabahi.
Overall, visiting Pantar Marine Park
is not a waste since you can do many activities and buy valuable souvenirs.
Visit this marine park if you have a plan to travel to somewhere.
