Travel to Sulawesi by Lisanne L.

During my two weeks study break in October, I travelled with my roommate to the north of Sulawesi to visit some friends of her parents. The couple invited us to stay with them in their big house and they showed us some nice places and the big city Manado. Because the raining season already started there, I decided to continue my travel to the Togian Islands. Fortunately, the friendly woman offered me to arrange an appointment with her cousin in Gorontalo to pick me up from the airport and to stay with them until my ferry to the Togian islands will take off.

So I went to Gorontalo and met part of her family in Gorontalo who don’t know English but only Bahasa Indonesia. Because of Muslim culture, the area is totally different from Bali. I had to wear long clothes and all the people were watching me as an “Orang bulle” which means “foreigner” in Bahasa Indonesia. Many people wanted to take pictures with me or wanted to touch me. After two very nice days with my host-family in Gorontalo I took the ferry to Togian Islands. After 13 hours by ferry I arrived at this remote islands. It is a paradise atmosphere there and the sun was shining all day. The small islands have beautiful beaches and there are different activities like snorkeling, diving, trekking or a trip to the jellyfish lake.

 

 

I spend time at three different islands and it is wonderful to see the big palm trees and to stay in a quiet place with only 10 to 20 other tourists on the whole island. I met some really nice people mostly from Europe and all of them travelled the same route because the Togian Islands are recommended in the “Lonely Planet”. But although you are in paradise, there are some challenges you have to deal with, like the electricity and water only run 5 hours per day, you don’t have any phone signal or internet connection, you have to eat the local food (unfortunately I had big stomach problems) and you have visitors in the bdroom during the nights (rats).

 

After one week I took the ferry back to Gorontalo and went back to Bali. I was so happy to be “home” again, to have my own food, to have the Hinduism around me, to have internet connections and enjoy a silent night. It was a very exciting experience and I can really recommend to travel around Indonesia as much as possible. 

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