Why Diving at Wakatobi?

Wakatobi as one of the world's marine tourism objects the real underwater paradise. As a World’s Class Diving Centre, Wakatobi spoiles you with its uniqueness and easy things even it is your first diving experience. As a beginner, you can start diving in a house reef in one of the resorts where you can dive only 20 meters (60 feet) from the dive center. The island offers divers an incredible marine life diversity, both color and natural splendor, and several dive sites easy to access.

Wakatobi is one of the Regencies in South-East Sulawesi having its own vision to realize the only real underwater paradise at the world's coral reef triangle center. This visionary vision has a strong reason that beside as the richest site in coral reef collection and as the most beautiful site, (Operation Wallacea 2006) Wakatobi is also situated geographically at the world's coral reef triangle center with its 942 fish species and 750 coral reef species from total 850 of world's collection comparing to the two world's famous diving center like Caribbean Sea that owes only 50 species and other 300 coral reef species in the Red Sea, Egypt.

One of the most popular sites is Wakatobi Marine Park with its superb diving sanctuary. A great diving holiday and at the same time, marine conservation and community development will remain as an inspiration key to love more to the nature by protecting from all the damages.

Beside the underwater beauty, Wakatobi has also other beauty and richness such as white sandy beach, clear sea water, sunset in every islands edge, historical ruins like ancient fortresses and cannon that spread out in the four main islands, old village with its pillar house, traditional waving, blacksmiths, Bajo tribe and various particular dances. This nature and culture heritages put Wakatobi as the world's famous marine tourism objects. (www.rainbowdiplomacy.com/www.wakatobi.info)