Thousand Islands Jakarta

Thousand Islands are a chain of islands to the north of Jakarta's coast. It forms the only regency of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. It consists of a string of 110 islands stretching 45 km (28 mi) north into the Java Sea at West Jakarta Bay and in fact north of Banten Province.

Kepulauan Seribu or Thousand Island Archipelago consists of many small islands which are exotic and romantic.

As far as the tourist eyes can see, tourist can enjoy, blue and emerald green water, natural white sand beaches. The surrounding reefs are a home to a wide variety of colorful fishes and corals, making Kepulauan Seribu an ideal spot for diving, swimming, snorkeling and fishing, hideaway camping, sunbathing, relaxing and spoiling tourist. A perfect outdoor holiday gateway in this fantastic nature marine trip. If tourist join the tour arranged by professional registered guide, tourist will visit most of the main islands and set foot to most of the islands tourist might come across during the trip. Guide will show tourist the islands with the beautiful beaches around Thousand Island.

Tourist will spend most of time travelling at sea by boat, visiting remote islands, swimming and snorkeling near the island tourist will be visiting. Tourist will enjoy the beauty of underwater with its coral reefs, colorful fishes, etc. Above all, tourist will enjoy the beauty of white sandy beaches when tourist set your foot on those islands. Please bear in mind that, this trip your main activities will be swimming and snorkeling and walk around the beautiful beaches.

One of famous island in Thousand Island is Harapan Island. The island is located to the west of Pulau Kelapa, and connected to it by a 200-metre (660 ft) paved connection referred as the jembatan ("bridge"). The island belongs to the same reef system as Pulau Kelapa. Pulau Harapan is populated by people from Pulau Kelapa and Tangerang. The island was formerly known as Pulau Pelemparan ("throwing", "ejection") because it was the place where the Bugis and some other people were exiled. Later the island's name was changed to Harapan ("hope"), to symbolize a new era.

Capital of the Kelurahan of Pulau Tidung. At 50.13 hectares (123.87 acres), Tidung Besar ("large Tidung"), also known as Tidung Barat ("western Tidung"), is the largest island in the Kelurahan of Pulau Tidung and the largest island in Kepulauan Seribu. Tidung Besar sits within its own reef system, which also contains Tidung Kecil, the archipelago was named Hoorn Eilanden by the Dutch, after Dutch City. Tidung Besar is elongated in shape, measuring 3.8 km (2.4 mi) from west to east and 300 m (984 ft) from north to south. The current settlement in Pulau Tidung was established during the 1920s. Tidung Besar is connected to Tidung Kecil via a 630-metre-long (2,070 ft) wooden bridge.

Text by: Rizka Revanny
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