Traveling To Manokwari: Abasi And Bakaro Beach, Two Other Best Spot for Snorkeling

People may curios where would be the best spots to spend the days doing snorkeling in Manokwari? If you are in the city, finding the recommendation might vary to asking it in local people around the city. You would lucky to get good answer from those who may love to do snorkeling but you may confused for with some answer. This information may helps you to find some of the best snorkeling or fun dive spots around the city in Manokwari.

Surfing in Abasi Beach Manokwari.

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Today's story is about two beaches I explored last Sunday and spending almost half days in the water that bright with beautiful picture of coral, fish and sand in the sunny day. The beaches i meant are Bakaro and Abasi Beach. These two beaches are fully recommended for those who love snorkeling and enjoy the beauty of coral and fish. White sand, fantastic big corals and different colors of fishes are swimming just 1 - 2 meter bellow you.  

Abasi Beach Dirrection Maps

Its not far to get these two beaches because the roads are smooth with easy access point by bike or car. If you are staying around the city, you can take 'ojek" the public motor bike with yellow helmet. It cost you for 20,000 - 30,000 rupiah one way trip taking about 15 - 20 minutes ride. If you are visiting Bakaro beach, make sure you book the bike to come back and picked up since no much ojek are riding around this place. Unless you need to take about 1 km walk from the beach to get the main road where you can get public ojek. That's totally different if you hire it for one day.

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No cafe or restaurant around the beaches so make sure you take the food and water with you. But since the beaches is just around the village you can go to the community and ask for water or get small shop around the village and get bottle of water. They are mostly friendly and will do a quick respond to helps you.

Bakaro Beach is also famous with if fish calling performance. Where there is one old man whose claimed can call the fish from the sea to come surrounding him. This become one of the icon tourism attraction of this beach and sometime people are curious about is and visiting the Bakaro beach to witnessing this performance. While Abasi is also famous with the big wave for surfing. There is Abasi Surfing club where you can hire the board and guide to do surfing in the beach in front of you. But yes, surfing is always seasonal because the weather not consistent sometime.

For me I always prefer no wave because what I love to do is snorkeling not surfing. :-).
Hope this information useful for your reference while visiting Manokwari.