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- Apr 6, 2024, 10:42am
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Altitude: 157 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Kabupaten Soppeng Lejja Bulu Padangpulaweng -4.152636, 119.7888584°9’9” S 119°47’20” E
Day 23
A tale of 2 hot springs
April 6 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
In Bali, Carol and I went to hot springs at Lake Batur which were very clean, well maintained, busy and expensive. These hot springs at Hakata Lejja were the complete opposite but beautiful in their own way. The tiles were cracked and missing. The footpaths were rough and broken. Only 1 pool had water. But they were set in the best rainforest I'd seen in Sulawesi.
And I was the only one there.
You could even see the actual springs with the hot water coming out. It was very pleasant.
The road getting there was abysmal but you could see there was some work being done to improve it. There were also some new pools being built so I'm sure it will one day be a big tourist siteRead more
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- Apr 5, 2024, 4:40pm
- ☁️ 32 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Kabupaten Soppeng Toddasalo Lake Tempe -4.118567, 119.9673084°7’7” S 119°58’2” E
Day 22
Floating fishing village
April 5 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
In Cambodia I went to a floating fishing village on Tonle Sap (lake) which had lots of houses and its own school and shops. This village on Lake Tempe was not anywhere near that. There were only 5 houses. Apparently there used to be about 100 houses here but the lake has been overfished and many people have left to find a better way of living. The lake has also been clogged up with water hyacinth weeds which can double nearly every day so the floating village can get overwhelmed by them. A new route has to be found nearly every day.
But the boat trip out along the river and onto the lake was great. And lots of birds: terns, herons, egrets, swamphens.
So it was all worth it.Read more
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- Dec 6, 2019
- ⛅ 36 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Padupa Salo Lompo -4.1378, 120.0284°8’16” S 120°1’41” E
Day 6
Sengkang
December 6, 2019 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
Auf dem Weg nach Sengkang fuhren wir mit einem öffentlichen Transport und teilten uns die Rückbänke mit anderen Sulawesen. Unser Fahrer hieß NOBERT. Er arbeitet hauptsächlich in einer Coca-Cola-Fabrik und war sehr erfreut, dass er uns mitnehmen durfte.
Während der fünfstündigen Fahrt machten wir Halt an einem Essensstand an der Straße. Dort aßen wir eine Nudelsuppe INSTANT, direkt aus der Tüte serviert. 😄

In Sengkang angekommen liefen wir durch die Stadt, um erste Eindrücke zu sammeln. Die Städte ähneln einander in vielerlei Hinsicht. Und auch hier kommen wir nicht umher uns fotografieren zu lassen. Falls ihr uns jemals auf einem dieser Fotos sehen solltet, bitte verzeiht, dass wir nicht auf allen fröhlich, verzaubert und schön aussehen.😂 Den ganzen Tag heißt es immer nur: FOTO, FOTO, FOTO!!!

Abends haben wir ein nettes Restaurant gefunden wo wir ganz traditionell gegessen haben. Es gab Nasi Goreng (Reisgericht), Fisch und Mie Kering (Nudelgericht).

Am zweiten Tag in Sengkang machten wir am frühen Vormittag eine zweistündige Bootstour auf dem Tempe See. Überall flogen Vögel und an allen Ufern zwitscherte es. Der See ist wunderschön!
Unser Guide führte uns zu seiner Familie, die ganz ursprünglich noch als Fischer (genannt Bugis) auf dem See wohnen. Dort bekamen wir einen Tee serviert. Die Einheimischen sind alle sehr gastfreundlich und ebenso hilfsbereit, auch, wenn kaum jemand ein Wort Englisch versteht.Read more
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- Apr 6, 2024, 1:55pm
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 85 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Kabupaten Barru Panincong -4.512566, 119.7204394°30’45” S 119°43’14” E
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Day 23
Ain't no mountain high enough
April 6 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
After leaving the hot springs we had to take the road back over the mountains to Barru on the west down to Makassar. Completely dreadful road but great scenery.
Yes amazing scenery [Rhonda]
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- May 30, 2019, 10:11pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 163 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Lasompeh -4.508595, 119.9706444°30’31” S 119°58’14” E
Bali - day 49
May 30, 2019 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Slack morning today and we got to breakfast just before 10 and then had a swim and a shower. Then caught a taxi to the galleria and went shopping. Before shopping, we roughly packed our bags to work out what weight we had to deal with and checked out the additional baggage allowance for Emirates. Yikes it is $115 for an extra 5kgs, so I don’t think I will be doing that. I love a pair of trousers I had bought at UNIQLO and have been searching for another pair – Bali you were the winner and I now have a navy pair. Jody has more weight left in her bag, so might have bought a couple of things. She also started thinking about different bag options as her current large bag has a big rip and needs replacing and we saw some amazing Thule bags that were not cheap at all but very tempting. I was interested in the double zip concept for all of these new bags – so you can’t insert a pen into the zip and open them easily like you can with older bags but my trusty pack is going to last a bit longer. Jody also decided (for now) that she didn’t need a new bag from here, but you never know as we are still here for 2 more days.

By the time we caught a taxi back, got changed and got to the beach it was around 3.30, and the lunch place was closed. Never mind, our helpful people went searching and soon came back with a plate of Nasi Goering again which is very tasty. We also had a plate of fruit and some drinks delivered before having a swim in the sea. I really enjoyed the big waves, swimming between the flags with lifeguards on duty, and knowing Jody was on shore waiting for me to return. Between the big waves the sea was quite calm, so I would have been easy to see if I was in difficulty. We left the beach just before sunset and had another rest before dinner. Going back to work is going to be very very hard without all these wee rests! Our time is currently 4 hours behind NZ time, so getting up at 9am is like 1pm NZ time. We could be making the time change easier for ourselves by getting up early, but that doesn’t seem that easy to do! Oh well, at least Monday is a holiday.Read more
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