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.