Browsing Mount Gamalama

"There's no far in Ternate. Close only". This sentence is always the answer every time someone asks how far places who want to target and try to think of time travel. And, sure enough. From one object to another object, can only take 10 minutes.
As a result, tracing Ternate from north to south can take a full day. Honestly, the whole city area is 43 km2. However, notwithstanding the small, packed with diverse wealth of Ternate.
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Ternate Held Legu Gam Early April

Keraton Ternate Sultanate held a party of the people of North Maluku, Legu Gam, on 1-17 April 2010 to attract the minimum of a 20,000 tourist arrivals into the area.

"This is one of our efforts to attract more tourist visit to Ternate," said the originator of Legu Gam, Empress Sultanate of Ternate, Boki Ratu Nita Budhi Susanti, in a press conference in Building stepping on Wednesday.

She said the administration party of the people Legu Gam aims to promote tourism and tourism potential in North Maluku (Malut).

According to her, Malut has many potential tourist destinations to offer to tourists, both domestic and foreign.

Legu Gam is a party of the people of Ternate people who already held regularly in the last seven years as the anniversary of the Sultan of Ternate and this year to welcome the Emperor's birthday 75th.

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Ternate, The Beauty of Water

Water Island Ternate, North Maluku assessed the potential for tourism activities, such as diving tours, swimming, fishing, jet skiing and the roads around the island of Ternate using traditional boats.
All around the island of Ternate beach locations are also many very interesting sights, such as Sulamadaha Beach, Beach and Beach AKE Dorpedu Rica.

According to research from a marine expert from the Netherlands, the location of the island of Ternate in the waters mentioned very attractive for tourist submarines, including the waters and beach Swering Beach Sulamadaha. Regions that have a diversity of coral reefs (coral) and a very beautiful fish to look at.

Fish and coral reefs in both locations are very diverse, there are even some types of coral reefs (name not mentioned) who entered the rare category. Other advantages of both locations for diving are located very close to the mainland and the city center, so to achieve it does not need to hire a boat with big expenses.

Only problem is, according to research from the Dutch oceanographer, the beauty of the underwater scenery at both locations was slightly tarnished by the waste stuck on the sidelines now.

Therefore, Ternate Island communities are suggested to throw garbage into the sea, because in addition to threatening aquatic environment in general, can also close the dive tourism development opportunities in the waters around the island of Ternate, as in Côte Swering and Sulamadaha.

Ternate municipal government will provide various facilities to entrepreneurs who want to develop the tourism sector in the city of Ternate, especially the ease of licensing and procurement support infastruktur tourism.

Facilities and infrastructure supporting the tourism sector in Ternate, such as hotels and restaurants are now adequate, even for a hotel in this city there is a four-star rates Rp450.000 per night only.

Transportation to and from Ternate, either by sea or air is also quite smooth. For air transport, in Ternate is ten times daily flights with a fairly low rate, such as for Ternate-Jakarta route is only about $140.
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