Pandan Island/ Pulau Pandan
January 15, 2009 by rank jamback
Filed under Padang Tourism
It is need 30 minutes from muara bay to come to this island. Pandan island is about 22.5 KM from padang city-muara padang, with area 8 hectare, have a sloping beach on south side and a varieties of vegetation on the north side, wave come from west and eastern side of island.
Sloping beach about 4 to 5 M length and smooth sands brought turtles to breed on this island, almost 500 to 1000 turtle’s eggs per week. On the center area of pandan island there is a fortress and canon, dutch heritage. The wave is big enough with the clear of water in 2 to 3 meters depth, a lot of reef and fish.
Pandan island is good for seacoast tourism, forest tourism, and history tourism in padang. /r.j



































