MAKASSAR, SULAWESI

MAKASSAR, SULAWESI

The airport here rocks man.  It's full on 21st century,.a big deal for anything / anywhere in Indonesia!

We spent two nights here after a direct flight from Kupang.  Stayed at a crap hotel near the airport our first night, and then found a back backers to drop our stuff of at and nap until the night bus to Tana-Toraja.  Carol slept, so I checked out Fort Rotterdam, built by the Dutch.

There are a lot of Chinese people in Makassar, so you see lots of those Malay / 'Spore style restaurants around town.  One dish that is famous in Makassar is beef inerd soup.  The broth is good, the soup cooked in cauldrons and the place was packing in the people!!  The place was right behind a Chinese temple. 

The bus station had a very funny guy working as the toilet collection guy, asking me questions about have to work out.  Little kids kept running over to me to give me a high five and shake my hand.  Carol said:  "Imagine you were on the subway and saw Andre the Giant or a movie star.  Wouldn't you go over to shake his hand?"  She sure had a good point.  Now I was looking forward to a long eight hour bus ride where the driver drove the bus away when I had one foot still on the ground after barely getting on, and wouldn't turn the radio off at 4AM after repeated requests.  


Location: Makassar, Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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