Bunaken Sea Garden Resort

The best dive and snorkel spots of the Bunaken Island (North Sulawesi)

Bunaken Sea Garden Resort is a small and cozy dive resort with comfortable traditional style cottages located in a tropical garden. It’s located at Pangalisang Beach on the east coast of Bunaken Island.

They offer Indonesian-style bungalows in the middle of nature and 2 spacious Minahasa style family houses with a nice sea view. They have 2 floors with on each floor a bedroom with private bathroom. One room has a double + a single bed, the other room a double bed. One extra bed is optional. Each room has his own entrance and veranda with sea view. Perfect for a small family or a few friends.

The resort also provides luggage storage, safety box and laundry services. Sea Garden restaurant serves Indonesian dishes, vegatarian meals are also no problem.

You can go snorkeling on beautiful house reef, walk into the sea in front of the Bunaken Sea Garden Resort and snorkel over an amazing coral reef, or you can join the boat for spectacular diving around the island.

Pathways connect the various settlements on Bunaken. There are no cars on the island, motorbikes and boats are the only means of transportation on and around the island, most visitors choose to walk.

At low tide you can walk along Pangalisang Beach to the village, the beach disappears underwater at high tide and you can walk back along the pathways.

The high tide creates a natural swimming pool along the resort and at low tide a shady, sandy beach appears. From the restaurant you have a beautiful view of the mangrove beach and the open sea.

The colorful coral reefs of the Bunaken National Park are right in front of the resort and many other beautiful dive sites are only a short boatride away.