Two Fish Divers Bunaken is our own small dive resort on Pangalisang Beach, on Bunaken Island and inside the marine park. Most Bunaken diving runs from the Manado mainland, 45 to 60 minutes by boat each way. We’re already on the island, and most dive sites are within 20 minutes by boat.
The resort is set in a garden around our 18m pool, with some cottages on the beachfront. Every stay is full board, with three meals a day at our own restaurant and free coffee, tea and drinking water, and there are no more than 4 divers per guide.
We are a PADI 5 Star centre, and at Bunaken we run fun diving, snorkelling and the PADI courses from Discover Scuba and Open Water through Advanced, Rescue and Specialty. We also run Divemaster Internships and Instructor Internships here.
See the cottages and rooms · Dive & Stay packages and prices
A small resort built for diving, on Pangalisang Beach inside Bunaken Marine Park. Everything you need is on site, which matters here: the island has few other places to stay or eat.
Garden Room with A/C: IDR 805,000 per person per night, two sharing, full board. Dive & Stay packages from IDR 5,940,000 per person for 3 nights with 4 dives.
Asian Diver magazine named Bunaken Best Wall Diving in Asia in 2004 — and it still is what wall diving is supposed to look like. Vertical coral walls dropping hundreds of metres into deep blue, painted with sponges and hard corals in every colour. Sea turtles so common you stop counting after the first morning. Visibility regularly exceeding 25+ metres. And dive sites so close to our resort that you’re underwater within 5 minutes of leaving the beach.
Bunaken Marine Park is a UNESCO-nominated site and one of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems in the world. It’s been a protected national park since 1991. Diving here is diving in one of the last great reef systems on earth.
We run our own resort on Pangalisang Beach — small, full board, and right on the water. No long boat rides. No transfers from Manado. You wake up, walk to the boat, and within minutes you’re descending a wall that’s been growing coral for thousands of years.
Sheer vertical walls from 5m to beyond recreational limits, draped in sea fans, barrel sponges, and soft corals. Lekuan, Bunaken Timur, Sachiko — some of the most densely encrusted walls most divers will ever see. Visibility regularly 25m+.
Turtles that allow close approach, walls covered in colour, pygmy seahorses to be found, and visibility that makes wide-angle shots effortless. The combination of subjects and water clarity makes Bunaken a photographer's dream.
Full board island resort, 3 meals a day, no logistics. Wake up, dive world-class walls, eat well, sleep to the sound of the ocean. Star-filled skies with no light pollution. This is a proper diving holiday.
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Most Bunaken diving is run from the Manado mainland — a 45-60 minute boat ride each way before you even get wet. We’re already on the island. Our resort sits on Pangalisang Beach, inside the marine park, with dive sites minutes from the boat.
What being island-based means for your diving:
Below is a sample schedule, we choose sites based on conditions, dive experience and guest wish-lists.
Fly into Manado, transfer to the the harbour in Tiwoho (ti-wo-ho!) or Bahowo (ba-ho-wo), 20-30 minute boat crossing to Bunaken Island. Arrive at our resort on Pangalisang Beach, check-in & settle into your room. Optional afternoon dive on the nearby wall if you arrive in time. First dinner at the resort with delicious buffet-style Indonesian dishes.
Morning boat to a Lekuan site — the signature Bunaken wall. Sheer vertical drop, sea fans, barrel sponges, and turtles everywhere. Surface interval with snacks on the boat. Second dive at Muka Kampung. Back for lunch. Optional afternoon dive at Sachiko for passing pelagic and shoals of reef fish.
Drift dive at Bunaken Timur — current-swept wall with pelagic visitors and some of the best corals in the park. Second dive at Siladen Island for a change of pace — gentle coral gardens, macro life, and pristine hard coral. Evening: night dive if conditions allow, or star-gazing from the beach.
Our own resort on Pangalisang Beach, inside the marine park, set in a garden around an 18m pool, with some cottages on the beachfront. Full board, with three meals a day and free coffee and tea.
See the cottages and rooms →Full board Dive & Stay packages: 3, 5 or 7 nights with 4 to 12 dives. Airport transfers and the marine park fee are extra. Nitrox available.
From IDR 730,000 pp /night (full board)
From IDR 1,650,000 for 2 Dives
Year-round diving. Best visibility Apr–Oct (25m+). Water 27–30°C all year. Slightly more rain Nov–Mar but diving continues daily.
See more about diving →Lekuan walls, Fukui Point, Sachiko, Siladen Island, Manado Tua — world-class wall diving inside a marine park. All within minutes by boat.
Explore our dive sites →Learn to dive on world-class walls with turtles and 25m+ visibility from your first open water dive. Full PADI pathway available.
See courses in Bunaken →Fly to Manado (direct from Singapore, Jakarta, Makassar). 40 min to harbour, 20-30 min boat to our resort on the island. We arrange everything.
Plan your journey →Bunaken is walls, turtles, and pristine reef. Lembeh, 2 hours away, is the polar opposite: black sand slopes, tiny bizarre critters, and some of the best muck diving on earth. The contrast between the two is one of diving’s great combinations.
Our Walls & Muck Safari packages combine both locations — 4 nights Bunaken + 3 nights Lembeh, with transfer included.
See the safari →
Add Bali — Fly Manado → Bali and continue with manta rays on Nusa Penida, the Liberty wreck in Amed, or both. We coordinate the full trip across locations.
Explore Bali diving →
Your loyalty points carry across all 5 locations. Every 10 dives across our centers earns you 10pts that you can redeem for a free dive at any Two Fish centre.
