Visiting Banda is interesting for two reasons: excellent diving and its amazing history. Banda islands, part of a volcanic group of islands covered with lush vegetation, have been a destination for traders for more than two thousand years.
Some of the most spectacular drop-off walls we have ever encountered are found amongst these tiny atolls in the heart of the Banda Sea. Plunging straight down for thousands of meters these walls are covered with countless species of soft corals and enormous barrel sponges.
Located 400 miles from Ambon, these islands offer exotic panoramas. Natural and artificial pearl cultivation are found around these island, giving the nickname of the of the Pearl Island. The Aru Island cover very large area, and are important for traditional pearl giving the deer hunting.
Sail Banda Designed To Reflect World Sailing Expedition
Submitted by admin on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 13:43
The Sail Banda event in Maluku province next year had been designed so that when the time comes, it will reflect the world sailing expetition, head of the local Culture and Tourism Agency Florence Sahusilawane said.
The Sail Banda event in Maluku province next year had been designed so that when the time comes, it will reflect the world sailing expetition, head of the local Culture and Tourism Agency Florence Sahusilawane said.
“Sail Banda is being designed by adoption of the ways the Dutch applied the “Hongi Tochten” (boats and war instruments in the form of kora – kora/boats) with its world historical significance,” he said here Wednesday.
Therefore it is being introduced to the villages in Maluku which still have the traditional fishing boats (kora – kora, colepaku, semang, kole – kole and belang) according to their respective cultural characteristics need to be reported to the regency/city administrations for presentation during Sail Banda.
