Sulawesi Tours and Excursions

Start the tour with a visit to Fort Rotterdam which also houses the La Galigo Museum. This Museum consists of two buildings, one housing ethnology, the other history. Then continue to "Clara Bundts" to see their famous collection of sea shells and orchids. Tour continue with a visit to the old harbour of Ujung Pandang, "Paotere" which home to the handsome and world famous "Pinisi" or Bugis schooners. Finally before returning to the hotel, we visit "Sutra Alam", where we can see the weaving of traditional Bugis Silk.

Starting with ...... to the mountain, 1050 meters above sea level and 75 km east of Ujung Pandang to Malino, a cool mountain resort, once the favorite weekend retreat for the colonial Dutch. We will visit the spectacular Takapala Waterfall, which is set amongst the beauty of the rice paddies. Lunch will be served in Malino, on the return trip to Ujung Pandang we will visit the tomb of Sultan Hasanuddin and other tombs of the former Kings of Gowa as well as the Balla Lompoa Museum.

The city tour of Manado, bustling capital of north Sulawesi, speads across low coconut clad hills around a wide bay. This tour takes you to "Pasar Bersehati", the largest food market in the town displays an overwhelming quantity and variety of fresh produce meats, fish, and other things of daily needs Ban Hin Kiong a buddhist temple built in 19th century is the next place to be visited and also the orchid garden at Kairagi village, the Manado Boulevard with its beautiful view of Bunaken with Manado Tua island as beck ground and Bumi Beringin,that's is a residential area of North Sulawesi.

Minahasa Highland, the hinteland of Manado, is extremely mountainous. The upland hills are covered with clove trees, vanilla, rice fields and other crops. This tour will visit some beautiful places of Minahasa. Tinoor, is the first stop made where you can admire the beautiful view of Manado city and its sorroundings from 500m above the sea level. Tomohon, a beautiful flowers city lies between two active volcanoes with its "Bukit Inspirasi" means "Inspiration Hill" which is used by the Christian churches gather for meeting or conferences. Linow changing color lake at Lahendong village, Pulutan, a traditional pottery making village, tand then to the beautiful lake Tondano. After lunch at the local Minahasa's restaurant, continued to Tondano city, the capital of Minahasa regency then to Sawangan village, it is the largest collections of an ancient sarcophagus or "Waruga". Dating from as early as the 9th century, the Waruga are rectangular stone burials of ancient Minahasa's tribes.

This Industrial tour gives you more opportunity to observe in detail how the meats of coconut turned to Copra, Oil or flour at Sukur village and how the meat of nutmeg is processed to become sweet nutmeg, juice or jam at Kregesan village. This tour continued to Bitung harbour to see the Tuna fish market at Airtembaga with lovely view of Lembeh island that protects Bitung Harbour from strong winds or big waves.

Bunaken, a beautiful island with its white sandy beaches and covered with coconut trees provide experience and pleasures not only for divers to enjoy the spectacular sea garden, but also for snorkels or just make observations through the glass bottom boat. Coral reef formation begins with a flat reef to about 3 m (10 ft) deep, then slopes down to hundreds of meters. picnic lunch served on the beach.