THE BEAUTY OF BUNAKEN MARINE NATIONAL PARK.

BUNAKEN MARINE NATIONAL PARK was a cluster of islands which included Manado Tua, Bunaken, Siladen, Mantehage and Nain, those islands were a popular sea garden in Indonesia, a place which was well known among the tourist who enjoy its white sandy beach open to sea side of Manado Bay, the attendants coming to these islands not only for SWIMMING or SUN BATHING, but was also a popular place to discover the beauty of one world famous tropical marine life by SCUBA DIVING and SNORKELLING

MANADO TUA island was also one of favorite mountain for HIKING and CLIMBING where tourists could find a beautiful bird eye view of Manado Bay with its crystal clear blue water and small islands nearby, the picture above is Manado Tua seen from Kalasey beach.

Takes about 30 minutes by boats or ferry from Manado’s Seaport near Pasar 45 (empat lima market) to reach the beauty of INDONESIA’S tropical warm water diving site.

DOG MEAT or popular as RINTEK WUUK (RW), is one of Minahasa’s Cooking.

Manado is one place in Indonesia beside Timor in Nusa Tenggara and Batak in North Sumatra in which the peoples consume dog meat on their menu. Rintek Wuuk abbreviated by RW is one of Minahasa’s popular cooking made from dog meat, a seller at Tomohon Market explained that Rintek Wuuk or RW means bulu halus or literally is an animal with smooth fur to say it was a dog.

In Tomohon Market, about 30 km south of Manado, one could find a stall that sell this kind of dog meat for RW Cooking, in one compound of the market one could see a butcher special for dogs and dogs are keep in cages, It was not a slaughter house but it was an open air place for slaughter dogs where dogs are slaughter in a such manner that the blood is not bleed out.

If one would try an RW cooking, just ask the meat seller, he would tell you a place called Kakas Kasen is Tomohon town center where one could find a restaurant with a special unique menu of Minahasa’s cooking.

TOMOHON, A BEAUTIFUL SMALL TOWN BETWEEN TWO MOUNTAINS.

Tomohon was also popular with its two mountains, one could say that Tomohon was located right at the foot of those two mountains, like an Indonesian popular song said that “ Disana Gunung Disini Gunung, Di tengah tengah Kembang Melati” ( A mountain is over there and A mountain is over here, in between was a beauty of jasmine flower), yes it was as what the song said, Tomohon was look like a beautiful of a jasmine flower lied between Mount and (LOKON (1.580 m) and Mount MAHAWU (1.311 m). The picture above is Mount Lokokn view from Tomohon bus terminal

When you have to travel to Manado, don't miss to you enjoy this cool and breeze small town from the beginning you enter this region if you are drive from Manado to the south via a steep hill road. On the way up hill you could see Manado Bay and its city from a high point above where it was also one of a fascinating view, on both side road you also could see houses with Minahasa style architecture made from woods, and so many colorfull of beauty flower along the main street of Tomohon

PANIKI a UNIQUE CUISINE made from smoked bats, find it at TOMOHON, a small city south of Manado

TOMOHON is a nice place in North Sulawesi Province, visitors could reach this cool small town by take a commuter transportation “ANGKOT” from pasar 45 ( empat lima market) or from a pathway along the Manado down town boulevard to a destination to an intercity bus terminal at KAROMBASAN, then from Karombasan take a bus with the destination to TOMOHON, drive as far as 30 km away from Manado to the South, through long, winding and steep hill road.

If you have a chance visiting Tomohon, don’t miss TOMOHON MARKET, just walking distance from a bus stop, a unique of Tomohon wet market was where there are stranded stalls which sell various kinds of vegetable and also between the veggies stall you could find some stall which sell Bats barbeque on their table.

Tomohon, was really uniQUE in line with a popular of Minahasa’s cuisine called PANIKI, a local cuisine made from a smoked bats, I would say that almost of the peoples here were prepare BATS as their food consumption, this is why I would also called them as BATMAN, the peoples who enjoy Paniki, a bats barbeque as one of their popular menu.

NORTH SULAWESI PROVINCE – INDONESIA, IN BRIEF

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The North Sulawesi Province is located in the northern edge of Eastern Indonesia is geographically situated between 0.30-4.40° north latitude and 123.0-127.00° east longitude. The total area of the province is 15,272.44 km2 with most of the area as low hills at 0 (zero) to 2,000 meters above the sea level.

North Sulawesi has a typical equatorial climate with two seasons: summer wet and summer dry. The wet season lasts from about November to March, and the dry season April to October. The total number of rain days is 90-130 days with approximately 3.000 mm average annual rainfall. The average temperature is 26 to 30 Celsius with the average humidity being 80%.


North Sulawesi consist of 4 cities they are, Manado, Tomohon, Bitung, and Kotamobagu, divided into some districts: Minahasa, Minahasa utara, Minahasa Selatan, Minahasa Tenggara, Bolaang Mongondow, Bolaang Mongondow Utara, Sangihe, Talaud and Sitaro.
North Sulawesi could be reach by air from Jakarta with a stop over at Ujujng Pandang-South Sulawesi (2 hours + 1 hour), or it could be reach directly from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ( 4 hours). Sam Ratulangi International Airport of Manado is one of the main entry ports to Indonesia. A taxi from the airport to central Manado takes about 30 minutes and costs about Rp. 70,000 (bargaining). Departure tax from Manado is Rp.100.000 for international flights and Rp. 30,000 for domestic flights. The terminal has an Internet cafe in the public area and the standard array of restaurants.

WORLD OCEAN CONFERENCE 2009 , MAY 11-15, 2009: MANADO – NORTH SULAWESI PROVINCE, INDONESIA

VENUE FOR WORLD OCEAN CONFERENCE: IN MAY 11-15, 2009 with the theme :
"Climate Change Impacts To Oceans and The Role of Oceans To Climate Change"

As introduce by the organizing committee on : http://www.woc2009.org/

The Government of Indonesia is hosting a World Ocean Conference in Manado, 11-14 May 2009. The purpose is to promote a better understanding on the role of the ocean towards a global climate change and to identify a practical measures to harness global cooperation and feed the mass media to promote a public awareness of this initiative
GOALS : The World Ocean Conference (WOC) 2009 is a forum for the world community to discuss current issues in the marine field which are related to a climate change, and how the world wisely utilize the ocean to weather crisis. Furthermore, WOC 2009 is expected to create a more aligned global vision and commitments from participating governments and institutions to work together to improve marine resources management.