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Sianok Canyon, Historic Beautiful Valley

Sianok Canyon or Valley is a beautiful valley, green and fertile. The basic flow of a creek meandering banks of searching amid the backdrop of Mount Merapi and the Barisan mountain. Sianok Canyon is a steep valley (ravine) located in the border town of Bukittinggi, with District IV Koto, Agam, West Sumatra.  The valley stretching and twisting as the southern border town of   ngarai Koto Gadang to Ngarai Sianok Enam Suku, and ended up Palupuh. Ngarai Sianok has beautiful scenery and become one of the main attractions of the province. This gap is about 100 m stretches along 15 km with a width of about 200 m and is part of the fault that separates the island of Sumatra in half lengthwise (Fault Semangko). This fault forming a steep wall, even perpendicular and form a green valley - the result of decreased movement of the earth's crust (sinklinal)- draines by Batang Sianok (mean stem of the river, in the Minangkabau language) that the water is clear. In the Dutch colonial era, ...

The Best Dive Spots in Indonesia

Indonesia is home to some of the best dive sites in the world. With sparkling waters, warm temperatures, varied marine life, divers from around the world have always come to visit every year. Here are described some of the best diving spots in Indonesia 1. Wakatobi. ,  S outheast Sulawesi   Wakatobi is one of 50 parks nasoinal in Indonesia, located in the district of Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi. This national park is set in 2020, with a total area of ​​1.39 million ha, involving marine biodiversity, scale and condition of coral; which occupies one of the highest priority for marine conservation in Indonesia. The water depth in this national park is varied, the deepest reaching 1,044 meters below sea level. In this garden there is a panoramic underwater natural beauty which has 25 pieces of coral reef. Coral reefs can be found around 112 species of 13 families located on 25 points along the 600 km coastline. The types of coral are: Acropora Formosa, Hyacinthus, Psammocora p...

Kelimutu, Three Lakes with Three Different Colors on a Mountain Top

  Mount Kelimutu has three crater lakes on top. The lake is known as the Lake Three Colors because it has three different colors, namely red, blue, and white. However, the colors are always changing with the passage of time. Kelimutu is a volcano keeps erupting. This mountain has an altitude of 1,639 meters or 5,377 feet above sea level in the village Pemo, District Flores, Ende, Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Indonesia. Mount Kelimutu was first discovered by Van Such Telen which is a Dutch citizen in 1915. But the new Mount Kelimutu recognized by the public as one of the named Y. Bouman wrote his admiration for the Kelimutu which kept the charm of the lake three colors in a book in 1929. Crater lake on Mount Kelimutu is unique, because the crater lake had 3 kinds of colors different from one another. There are red, blue, and white. The Three Colors is a flagship tourist attraction on the island of Flores. The crater lake has an area of approximately 1,051,000 square mete...