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Hello Mister!
... mon hôtel depuis 5 jours, je me promène dans les rizières et je pars à la recherche des mégalithes. Pas plus d'info là-dessus, on se sait pas qui les a construits. Me voyant errer sur la route à peine fréquentée, un paysan me prend sur sa moto. Faute de transport public, je passe deux nuits à Doda.
Dans la localité voisine de Woasa, je m'offre alors les services d'un "guide", enfin un mec du coin qui m'emmène faire ...
Derniere etape avant le pays Toraja
... du coup c est le spot ideal pour se reposer et attendre que la fievre passe. Une treve octroyee par mister Doliprane permet a Jordane d avoir quand meme quelques forces pour aller voir ce qu il y a voir autour de Tentena, en motorbike: le bord du lac de Danau Poso et une jolie waterfall, Terjun Salopa (ca ne s'invente pas).
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White pickett fences - you could be in England!
... we take a long walk through the town, it has a very dusty road through the middle with one set of traffic lights everybody ignores. We try to get cash from the ATM as we are heading for Togean Islands which has no ATM's, so we need to get a pile of cash in reserve, unfortunately the machine has run out of money. On the way back we get off the main road and walk along the backroads and are pleasently surprised by lovely houses surrounded with white picket fences ...
Dead or Alive!
... funeral while the coffin sat on a balcony with her family watching on five buffaloes were sacrificed before being skinned and cut up for guests to take home as party gifts. To the locals this seemed natural and the children even wanted the hoofs so that they could pull them along on a bit of string thus pretending they owned a buffalo like their fathers. Then over the next two days I visited tree child graves, cliff graves guarded by ...
Dreaded visa extension!
The visa we got on arrival expires on the 21st, so we headed for the Kantor Immigrasi when we got back to Manado from Bunaken on the 18th. We filled out the visa application form and had to photocopy the front page of our passport, the visa page, our departure document and our return ticket - luckily there was a photocopy shop just across the road. We then had to buy a red cardboard folder in which they could keep our ...