Anambas Islands is a new regency of Riau Islands Province, located 150 nautical miles northeast of Batam Island. Anambas has all tropical island beauties, blue warm sea with its coral reef and fishes, palm trees outspreaded on the beauty of white sand, sun, serenity and many others. According to CNN, Anambas Islands are one of Southeast Asia's most spectacular coastal spots.
There are 238 islands included to Anambas Regency, all them has beautiful beach covered by white sand, some of the island knew as the origin habitat of black turtle. One of the most popular island of Anambas is Pulau Bawah (Bawah Island), in Bawah Island we can find a giant Laguna that made by group of islands in the middle of sea. The blue clear water of the Laguna makes me possible to see clearly, until the bottom of the Laguna included the ecosystem inside. White sand covered the bottom of the Laguna, coral rocks grow on the some spots on the bottom of the Laguna, and of course, we can enjoy various beautiful fishes swimming around. Laguna in Anambas is one of the best worldwide according to Peter Michael Timmer, the owner of PT Tambesu Development a company that operating business in the islands.
But not only the nature attraction, you can also explore diversity of culture and daily life of coastal people of Anambas. Not only local trebles loving on Anambas, some of them are outsider who come and live there. Path of Chinese culture can be found on the some areas of Anambas, there are some interesting Chinese temple to be visited.
Anambas just like some other exotic spots in Indonesia like Karimun Jawa Island, Derawan, Raja Ampat in Papua, not yet recognized in the map of worldwide tourism, but quite easy to reach Anambas, because we can reach them both from Batam via air or via Tanjung Pinang using boat. From Hang Nadim Airport in Batam we need only 1 hour to reach Matak Airport, Palmatak Island one of Anambas Islands group. If you choose to reach Anambas via Tanjung Pinang you will spent about 9 hours sea travel.
Midnight lodging can be found easily on Tarempa, capital of Anambas Islands Regency.
Come to Anambas, Come to Anambas, and then you will find a virgin tropic islands only some miles from an extremely busy city Singapore. There are many spots to refresh.
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