YOS Dive Lembeh - Eco Beach Resort
It has been an extraordinary dive trip, indeed.
A short dive trip to Lembeh Island, an island off the north east coast of Sulawesi, near the city of Bitung. Beautiful dive sites along the Lembeh Straits.
If you live in Singapore, it's pretty easy travelling to Lembeh Island. Flights to Manado's Sam Ratulangi International Airport (MDC) are easily available, and from Manado (the capital city of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia), a car ride should bring you to the dive resorts in Lembeh.
As for us, we flew to Manado on Silkair from Singapore (approximately 3.5 hours flight time). The staff from YOS Dive Lembeh - Eco Beach Resort picked us up from the airport, followed by a 2 hours car ride to the beautiful resort.
After arriving at YOS Dive Lembeh - Eco Beach Resort, we were welcomed by a group of friendly staffs with Watermelon Juice and warm towels.
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| Dining Area |
YOS Dive Lembeh - Eco Beach Resort is a small but super cozy resort with only 10 rooms in total. The
Beach Villa was AWESOME.
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| A Canopy Bed. YES, A CANOPY BED WITH BED CURTAINS. |
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| Back view of the room |
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| Side view of the room |
The room was magnificent. The furnitures, the flooring, the tables, were all wood textured. That made us felt so close to nature, but the entire room was classy and different at the same time.
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| Shower Area |
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| Sinks and Mirror |
Madness, isn't it? Just the toilet itself is bigger than my room back at home. We even joked about being able to rear two cows in the toilet.
There were two shelves located in the toilet and yes, we absolutely loved it. We could dry our wetsuits, masks and cameras at the area.
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| Balcony |
On top of the spacious room and toilet, there was also a balcony with sea view. The breeze and peace at night time, simply makes you wanna just stay out in the balcony.
Newlyweds, who are divers, looking for a place for your honeymoon? This is the resort for you!
Diving in Lembeh Straits
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| Lembeh Straits' Dive Sites Map |
Lembeh is known for its muck diving with the wide variety of colourful marine creatures. It will be impossible to cover all the dive sites within a trip, hence, it's definitely a place worth to go back for more.
Some of the beautiful marine creatures...
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| Flamboyant Cuttlefish |
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| Hairy Frogfish |
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| Embryonic Cuttlefish inside marble-sized egg case |
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| Cowrie |
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| Banggai Cardinal Fish |
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| Spotted Porcelain Crab |
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| Anemone with Parasite |
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| Cockatoo Waspfish |
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| Nudibranch - Willan's Chromodoris |
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| Baby Lionfish |
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| Arminid Nudibranch |
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| Cuttlefish |
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| Common Seahorse |
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| Flathead |
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| Nudibranch with Emperor Shrimp |
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| Banggai Cardinal Fish around Anemone |
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| Ramose Sea Hare |
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| Cardinal Fish with eggs in mouth |
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| Painted Frogfish |
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| Wunderpus |
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| Shuttlecock Spindle Cowrie |
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| Cowrie |
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| Sea Moth |
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| Gardiner's Headshield Slug |
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| Stargazer |
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| Frogfish |
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| Coconut Octopus |
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| Nudibranch |
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| Wire Coral Crab |
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| Emperor Shrimp |
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| Electric Fileclam |
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| Anemone Shrimp |
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| Orange and Black Dragonet |
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| Zebra Batfish |
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| Mantis Shrimp |
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| Squat Lobster |
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| Lembeh Seadragon |
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| Orangutan Crab |
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| Anemone Fish Eggs |
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| Aeolid Nudibranch |
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| Painted Frogfish |
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| Solar Power Nudibranch |
Credits: Ying Yin
The 9 of us were accompanied by 3 divemasters: Hiros, Parman, Epit. The divemasters were really good at spotting the tiny tiny tiny marine creatures. #respect
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| After dive |
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| After dive |
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| On the speedboat before going out for our dive |
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| With the local kids |
After each dive, the boatman will have fruits, hot ginger tea and hot face towels prepared for all the shivering and exhausted divers.
The staffs at the cafe were responsive and attends to every guest's needs promptly. Smiles were always on their faces!
The 3 divemasters (Hiros, Parman, Epit) that were humorous, helpful and attentive to all the divers' needs!
They were conversational in Manado Malay and could only speak minimal English. However, despite the language barrier, it wasn't difficult to communicate via gestures and simple English. It felt really warm with the friendly staffs and divemasters around in the this cozy resort. And also, due to the small capacity of the resort, the ratio of staffs to guests is 1:1 and that makes service standards higher with the staffs being more attentive to each and every guest.
Overall, it has been a memorable experience in YOS Dive Lembeh - Eco Beach Resort.
We will be back!
