Anyer is a town in West Java, Indonesia, fifteen kilometres south of Merak. It is home of a forty metre lighthouse built by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland in 1885 as a memorial for the townspeople killed by the eruption of Krakatau, which destroyed the town.[1] The original lighthouse was destroyed by a tsunami created by the eruption of Krakatua. It is thought that a large coral rock was picked up by the 30m wave, impacting the lighthouse causing its collapse. After the wave had subsided the lighthouse keeper, whose wife and child were killed, patrolled the beach with a lantern warning shipping of the hazards. The foundations of the original lighthouse can still be seen.
It is also the starting point of the Great Post Road, built by the Dutch in the nineteenth century, which ran 1,000 kilometres to the eastern tip of Java. Off the coast of Anyer is the island Pulau Sangeang, an unihabited island with vast areas of untouched jungle. The area is also known for coral formations swarming with tropical fish.
Anyer Beaches and resorts are very popular tourism destination located in the west coast of Banten, facing directly to the famous Krakatoa volcano in the middle of Sunda strait.
Good hotels and resorts are scaterred along the white sandy beaches. Since the beaches there facing to the west, hotels in Anyer offer good places to enjoy sunset scenery. Not only for vacations, many hotels in Anyer also well known as good places to conduct MICE ( Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events) activities. More than that, hotels and resorts in Anyer also offer you a posibility to see the Baby Naughty Krakatoa spew out its small eruptive fire.
