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Kakaban is just one of 31 islands in the Derawan Islands, located in Berau, East Kalimantan. With an area of approximately 774.2 hectares (ha), Kakaban including one of the four islands are quite large in Derawan Islands. Another third of the island Derawan, Maratua, and Charitable.
Although the island is quite extensive including, Kakaban not populated. In fact, this island treasures remarkable. Not in the form of gold, diamond or gemstone, but rare biota that exist only in two places in this world. Biota are rare jellyfish without the sting!
In addition to the Kakaban, jellyfish without the sting can only be found on the island of Palau, Micronesia Islands section, which lie in the Pacific Ocean. Palau Island alone there are actually a few lake inhabited by a jellyfish without the sting. In Indonesia, the jellyfish without the sting only can we find in Lake Kakaban, which is in the middle Kakaban.
More species
Compared to Jellyfish Lake in Palau, Lake Kakaban has at least two features. First, in terms of size, larger than Lake Kakaban Jellyfish Lake in Palau. The extent of 390 ha with a maximum depth of 11 meters.
Second, Lake Kakaban have more types of jellyfish. Palau has only one type of jellyfish without the sting, which Mastigias sp popularly known as golden jellyfish jellyfish aka gold.
Meanwhile, based on the information contained in the information board near the entrance to the island, there are at least four types of jellyfish without the sting is lodged in Lake Kakaban.
These four species are moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita, jellyfish jellyfish spotted Mastigias cf Papua, box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora, and inverted jellyfish Cassiopeia ornata. Spotted jellyfish and jellyfish upside is most prevalent.
Because of this privilege, Lake Kakaban not just a tourist destination for tourists. The researchers also often visited areas include the region-Umbrella Umbrella Village Ecotourism this.
Indeed, according to experts, the sting of the jellyfish is not completely lost. However, the sting is then weakened after the evolved over millions of years. It is said that the reason because there are no predators that threaten the jellyfish are in the salty lake. As a result, the "weapon" of jellyfish is not segahar their relatives who are in the open sea.
So forget the image of a jellyfish that sucks, you cause itching or swelling in pain for a few days! In Kakaban, very bersabahat jellyfish to humans. Fun again, in Lake Kakaban, millions of jellyfish without the sting ready to welcome us!
Many roads to Kakaban
Curious to immediately meet Kakaban jellyfish? To get there, access is available reached relatively easy, really. From Jakarta, you just look for flights to Tarakan, North Borneo. There are two alternative flight paths: directly to Tarakan or transit in Balikpapan. Tarakan, you must continue the journey by speed boat to the island Derawan.
Beyond that, there is one more alternative, the direct flight path to Berau, East Kalimantan. From here, you can rent a boat heading to the island Derawan rapidly with the distance shorter. When Tarakan, travel time can reach 3 hours and 4 hours, depending on sea conditions. "From Berau to Derawan, baseball travel time to 30 minutes," said Sanusi, a fast ship owners in Derawan.
Because Kakaban uninhabited, it's good when she reached the Derawan, you first look for lodging. "In Kakaban also not be camping," said Idris, one of the officers in the village of Ecotourism Umbrella-Umbrella.
Many homestay in Derawan. The location was fun, lined juts into the sea. The fee ranges from Rp 200,000 per room per night. But, if you want to stay at the resort, the charge can be up to Rp 2 million overnight.
Well, after steady with a choice of a place to sleep, you can embark on an adventure to Kakaban by fast boat. Usually, the journey has been a package with a visit to some other island following a number of spots to snorkel. Therefore, usually up in Kakaban, the sun was overhead.
So, it is better before heading to the lake, you fill the stomach first. Understandably, you have to walk quite a distance to reach the lake Kakaban.
Yes, now you get Kakaban lake. Wait what? Remove clothes and be prepared to swim and dance with thousands of jellyfish Kakaban!
(Mercy Kirana Wardani / KONTAN Source Weekly, Issue 5 to 11 August 2013) subject
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