Hotel Mutiara Sari +62411336068
Clean double room with simple breakfast for IDR 130,000.- or US$ 14.50 per night.
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Exploring the rugged, dirty and sprawling city of Makassar (aka Ujung Pandang or “Pandanus Palm Cape”) which owes almost nothing to tourism: (i) visiting Rotterdam Castle, one of the best preserved examples of 17th-century CE Dutch fortress architecture in Indonesia, with the Museum Negeri La Galigo (admission IDR 3,000.- per adult for the fine displays of old ceramics, coins, paintings, musical instruments and ethnic costumes), and looking with nostalgic feelings at the exhibited black-and-white photos from 1915 CE when Makassar appeared to be only sparsely populated, very well-maintained and without any litter (no heaps of used plastic bags, no piles of empty plastic water bottles and no loads of dirty styropur food containers), (ii) strolling along the waterfront and looking with similar nostalgic feelings at the proud cruising yachts which anchored off Losari Bay (amongst them the seafaring Kiwis Amanda & Simon on SY "Thyme"), and (iii) pigging out on Makassar’s famous seafood (ikan bakar) at one of the makeshift fish warung set up every night opposite Fort Rotterdam (where roaming buskers provided tableside entertainment).
Catching a blue pete-pete from the mall Makassar Sentral to the Kompleks Terminal Regional Daya (IDR 4,000.- per person) and then taking the Pelangi bus (IDR 70,000.- or US$ 7.85 per person for the 320-km ride) to Rantepao, a prosperous market town on the rocky banks of Sungai Sadan, thus entering the famed “Land of the Heavenly Kings” Tana Toraja, literally Torajaland, a (Christian) cultural island, hemmed in by mountains on all sides, with distinctive tongkonan houses (the roofs rise at both ends like the bow and stern of a boat and the house panels are exquisitely carved with geometric and animal motifs executed in the sacred colours of white, red, yellow and black), liang (cave graves), hanging graves, tau tau (life-sized wooden puppet effigies) of the dead and kerbau (water buffalo) carnage every summer.
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Photos 2010-13 Southwest Sulawesi
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