Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The sun sank in Tomea


Matahari merah bulat menggantung di perairan Waha. Kapal-kapal kayu yang masih berlayar pun mulai tampak seperti bayang-bayang hitam. Sebentuk wajah Pulau Tomea di saat senja mengantarkan malam.
Oleh Budi Suwarna

Round red sun hung in the waters of Waha. Wooden ships still sail began to look like a black shadow. A face Tomea Island at dusk deliver tonight.
By Budi Suwarna

Such beautiful scenery that makes dozens of people who were still in the dock. Port of Waha-most travelers from Jakarta to lazy to leave home. They want to watch the seconds way back towards the horizon the sun.

It was a perfect evening. The sun appeared naked without the blades of a cover lay.When the sun completely disappeared, people enjoy the traces of a red tinge in the sky blackened.

Romantic atmosphere that lasted about 30 minutes. After that, switch during the night.And, like the sun, the moon at night was perfect: round and red. That night was the night the 15 th in the dating system by month. The period when the full moon falls and distribute light.

In almost every night Tomea darkness because electricity is often dead, the moon is a light entertainment. At least, people do not need to use a torch when it passes through the dark streets.

That piece of the atmosphere in Tomea, a small group of islands that make up the Wakatobi, Kaledupa, Tomea, and Binongko who entered the region of Southeast Sulawesi province.

Districts designated as a national park was famous as a paradise dive sites dive sites in addition to paradise next to Bunaken, North Sulawesi, and Raja Ampat, Papua. National park's waters, according to dephut.go.id site, there are 25 clusters of coral reefs, 112 coral species from 13 families and 93 species of fish.

But the beauty of Wakatobi not only exist in the water, but also on the mainland. One of them is in the village of Bukit Tomea Kahyanga, Tomea island, the hilltop is a vast green savanna. "In the dry season, savanna is reddish brown," said Saharuddin, Tomea population.

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