Marannu Makassar

... have special baby graves. A baby would not be buried in a cave but in a special tree. According to legend if you would bury your baby this way your next child would not die an infant.

Apart from visiting these caves and attending one day of a funeral and to see more of the daily life of the Toraja we also went on a trek for 3 days in the area. This time not with porters and a cook but just a guide. It was a very rewarding hike. Absolutely amazing ...

... paying for yourself but for the entire group - this is not Pakistan! Bantimurung is cool but not as cool as Tat Kuang Si in Laos. The most interesting thing about the fort is the turkey on one of the bastions. 4 days is too long to spend in Makassar. Go back?: Seen all I need.

EN: Our trip to Makassar went better then we expected, this time the Kijang took "only" 6 people and our driver was a nice guy, so we were pretty comfortable all the way and even managed to get some sleep. Finding cheap accomodation was easy as the city is not that popular with tourists and most of them stay for only one night or so. According to the Lonely Planet guide, Makassar is supposed to be the place on Sulawesi to eat seafood and go partying. Leaving the ...

SURABAYA TO MAKASSAR (MAKASSAR TOUR) - Arrive in Makassar via plane. The plane we took was Lion Air. Lion air is one of the planes mentioned on the state department website as unsafe to fly. There were two students whose parents refused to have them on this flight. They took the safer and more expensive option Guarda. The flight was fine on the way there. The only thing that alarmed me was instead of safety cards ...

*** PLANING *** Día de playa y snorkell visitando la isla Samalona. Se puede ir en velero o Barco rápido. A la vuelta, hacer el check-out del hotel y cogeremos el autobús nocturno hacia Rantepao ...

*** PLANING *** Saldremos en avion desde Yogyakarta a Makassar. Los vuelos disponibles son: Merpati: Salida 6:05 Llegada 08:45 Lion Air: Salida: 6:00 Llegada:11:10 Una vez en Makassar, nos vamos al hotel, y nos montamos una ...

... and then trying to fly to the Baliem Valley despite there not being any scheduled flights is a good idea. So tomorrow I fly to the far east of Indonesia, to the land formerly known as Irian Jaya and now known as Papua. Papua is one of the few remaining 'wild' places on earth. The Baliem Valley wasn't discovered by the Western world utnil 1938 and then forgotten until after WW II during which fierce battles between the Allies and ...

... local, asi que para alla me fui. Durante los 3 minutos que duro el trayecto escuche muchos cantos de sirena provenientes de motoristas y taxistas vendiendome su tiempo, pero como ulises pude escapar de los mismos y llegar hasta el primer pete pete que esperaba clientes. El conductor me pedia 30000 rupias (3 euros) pero yo le dije que le daba 3000, que ese era el precio para todo el mundo. Al final accedio, pero me dejo a mitad de camino y tuve que tomar otro pete ...

... na Sulawesijo - Makasar. Potem pa bova odletela na Bali ter zopet na Gilije, da vidiva ce je se tako lepo kot lani. Na poti do Jakarte si bova ogledala se vulkan Bromo, ki sva ga lani izpustila. Zadnja dva dneva si bova v druzbi Hermawana pogledala se Jakarto, potem pa se ze kmalu vidimo. Sicer se bova sedaj malo veckrat javljala, saj bova obiskovala malo bolj turisticne konce Indonezije. DO takrat pa lep pozdrav. Tomo&Irena

Aku lahir di Pulau Jawa tapi saat umur 4 bulan, aku merantau hingga ke Indonesia Timur. Tepatnya di Propinsi Sulawesi Selatan yg skrg (sejak thn 2000) beribukota di Makassar (dulu beribukota di Ujung Pandang). Saya terpaksa merantau ke pulau Sulawesi krn ayah saya dinas keluar kota sejak thn 1983 hingga 1990 (jadi aku tinggal slama 5 thn dari thn 1985 hingga 1990). Aku juga s4 blajar bahasa Makassar ...