Kusu Island Resort is located in South Halmahera, Indonesia and is a tropical paradise for divers and nature lovers alike. Kusu Island Resort is the most luxurious and exclusive dive resort in this region. The resort consists of eight beautiful Ocean Villas, a restaurant, a water sports centre and two jetties. Kusu Island is located in the heart of the Coral Triangle, which is recognized as the global centre of marine biodiversity, and the reefs surrounding Kusu Island are virtually untouched and bristling with marine life. The island has white sandy beaches lined with palm trees, lush tropical forest and pristine blue water mangroves growing along the coast. There are a multitude of exotic birds that you can spot all over the island. Apart from diving, a wide range of activities are also available, including snorkeling, traditional kayak tours, land excursions as well as massages and wellness treatments.
Kusu Island Resort has 8 luxurious and spacious Ocean Villas. Each Ocean Villa is built on stilts over the sea and offers an open living and sleeping space, a Balinese-Style open-air bathroom and a large deck with your very own access to the sea. The breath-taking underwater world surrounding Kusu Island is only a few fin kicks away. Take a dip in and enjoy the magnificent ocean view – all in complete privacy.
Kusu Island Resort’s Ocean Villas have been carefully designed and handcrafted for privacy and sustainability and blend perfectly into the natural beauty of the island. Along the white sandy beach nestled between mangroves and rainforest trees the Ocean Villas are widely spaced for extra privacy. All of the Ocean Villas are spacious, well-ventilated and feature independent air-conditioning units, hot and cold freshwater showers as well as handcrafted furniture and fittings.
Kusu Island Resort’s restaurant and lounge area is built on stilts and extends over the sea. With Indonesian specialties complemented with international cuisine, you are invited to indulge with all your senses. The relaxation area of the restaurant, equipped with comfortable couches and coffee tables, all handcrafted and unique from sustainable materials, is open to you all day. It is the ideal spot to enjoy a cup of tea, coffee, or a fruit cocktail while enjoying magnificent ocean views from all angles and watching colorful reef fish, baby blacktip reef sharks and stingrays swimming by. Meals are served three times a day. Afternoon tea is served with fresh baked delicacies. Coffee, tea, and fresh fruit are available to you any time of the day.
Kusu Island is located in the heart of the Coral Triangle in South Halmahera, which boasts over 3,000 fish species and 600 coral species. Not only is the island surrounded by miles of pristine colourful reefs teeming with marine life, it is also located inside a 5-mile marine protection zone. Only a few fortunate divers have been able to enjoy this pristine underwater jewel yet. With plenty of spectacular dive sites to choose from for all experience levels, Kusu Island is a diver’s dream come true.
The diving around Kusu Island offers everything from big fish like tunas, dolphins, whales, mantas and sharks to large schools of fish down to macro critters like pygmy seahorses. The reefs are teeming with life and host hard coral gardens, lush colourful soft corals and gorgonians. The seascape offers walls, slopes, caverns, caves, overhangs, sea grass beds and underwater pinnacles. Experienced divers can enjoy adrenaline-filled drift dives, while relaxing dives on coral gardens teeming with reef fish are for all divers to appreciate. At least 40 known dive and snorkeling sites can be reached in less than 15 minutes, many of them located directly along the fringing reef of Pulau Kusu.
