Beras Basah Island Charm

Beras Basah Island Charm

If you see a small island in the eastern part of the Strait of Makassar East, Kalimantan island, Beras Basah Island called. Administratively, the island of the Bontang, the government of East Kalimantan province. The island is now a popular tourist destination and divers who are interested in the beauty of the underwater landscape.

Once upon a time there was a boat for sailing Kutai Kingdom in the Makassar Strait belong. It transporting food, including rice. The ship arrived - suddenly collapsed, leaving his luggage because the shallow waters where the shipwreck and the innate ship mainly not sink rice, but primarily as a lump appears. Lange - he eventually became a mound of rice as the rice white sand island is still wet, because it is surrounded by the ocean. Hence the origin of the name of Beras Basah according to local folklore.

To this island to visit, there are several access to all a wharf or port of Bontang derive. Quick access through most Badak NGL spring with a speedboat, which takes about 15 minutes. Alternative access through the port of Tanjung Limau and Tanjung Sea Bontang a small motorboat with which takes about an hour.

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