In this Indonesia Travel Vlog, we finally make it to the island of SULAWESI (Celebes)!!! Since we arrived in Indonesia, we were so excited to visit this island that is less touristy than the other places we went to! We had a late flight from Bali into Makassar, so we stayed in a cheap hotel and spent the whole day exploring all of Makassar before taking an overnight bus to Toraja! We started the day at the Laku Patisserie – a really cute coffee shop in the center of Makassar! They had amazing coffee, amazing avocado toast, and there was a picture of the Sagrada Familia from Barcelona (where Carles is from)! The cafe was in the best location right across the street from Fort Rotterdam Makassar! The fort is one of the most popular places to visit in Makassar! It’s a 17th century Dutch fort that was in use until the 1930’s. It’s also the most well preserved Dutch building in all of Indonesia! It’s free to enter and walk around the grounds, however there is also a museum part you can enter for a small fee. It was really neat to walk around the Dutch era complex in the middle of an island in Indonesia! When we left the fort, we walked past a giant gong to get to the famous Somba Opu Shopping Street. We were expecting more of a market type shopping street, but it was actually full of gold/silver/jewelry stores! We were so surprised to see all these stores in the middle of the city. We got pretty hot walking so we decided to turn toward the beach. When we arrived at the water we were SHOCKED by the amazing view of The 99 Domes Mosque! We walked along the water past a few other cool statues until we arrived at Pantai Losari (Losari Beach). At the bottom of Losari Beach we came to the Floating Mosque aka Masjid Amirul Mukminin. We thought we wouldn’t be allowed in as we weren’t dressed properly, but the guy working outside spoke English very well and said just take off our shoes and we could go in! We walked up the stairs to see, but didn’t enter as we weren’t dressed properly.. It was still so cool to see the blue floating mosque in person! When we left the mosque, we continued walking toward the 99 Domes Mosque. We went by many different statues of famous people from Makassar until we reached the Center Point of Indonesia! There’s a cool globe that says it’s the center and we think it might actually be the CENTER of Indonesia if you look at a map (just another reminder that Indonesia is HUGE)! We continued to walk over the bridge to our final destination – the 99 Domes Mosque!!! It is probably the coolest mosque we’ve ever seen! The mosque was actually very busy when we arrived so we didn’t want to try to enter, however we were able to walk around the mosque and take pictures with so many people outside the mosque! From there we met up with a becak motor driver we had talked to earlier in the day. His motorbike actually had a Barcelona football seat so we had to take it back into the city to a gado gado restaurant we were recommended – Ratna Luwita. It was the best gado gado ever!! After we ate, we went back to our hotel to get ready for our overnight bus to Toraja!
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00:01 Intro
00:41 Walking Through Makassar
00:58 Coffee at Laku Patisserie
01:44 The Best Avocado Toast!
03:23 Entrance to Fort Rotterdam Makassar
06:36 Entrance to La Galigo Museum
09:08 Somba Opu Shopping Street
10:30 First Views of the 99 Domes Mosque
11:37 Pantai Losari Beach
13:05 The Floating Mosque (Masjid Amirul Mukminin)
15:16 The Center Point of Indonesia
15:59 Walking Over the Bridge
16:51 the 99 Domes Mosque Makassar
18:47 Barcelona Becak Motor Friend
20:36 Ratna Luwita
21:13 Best Gado Gado in Makassar
23:07 Overnight Bus to Toraja
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15:50 That's my mother's car๐๐๐ it looks like she just got home from dance practice
Edit : The sea in Losari has turned brown because the land was reclaimed a long time ago, hopefully after the construction is complete the sea will return to blue
Edit 2: Indonesia's center point is not on a giant globe but in the middle of the land reclamation in front of the 99 dome mosque, you can see it from goggle earth. But this is not the exact point, The center point that is 100% accurate is in a remote village far from Makassar
tempat wajib klo lagi di sulawesi ada Rammang rammang sama danau paisupok
Kami warga indonesia pasti memperingati hari kemerdekaan dan saya harap kalian ikut berpartisipasi dalam hal tersebuy
You look like good people, I hope one day you will also visit Kalimantan, the island of Borneo… there is a man from Canada who is walking around the island of Kalimantan. His channel is Kristian Hansen, a Canadian
Natalie, the way you dressed in this video was how most Indonesian women dressed even to go to the mosque till the 1990s. But Indonesia has became much more conservative since then so now itโs prudent to ask before going into one just in case you come across people who are more opinionated about how a woman should dress.
Iโve never liked taking the bus they have plying the route between Makassar and Rantepao, I wish there was a better way to go to Tana Toraja other than taking the bus or the plane (which is just too expensive for me).
BTW that gado-gado looks good but itโs not a dish typical to South Sulawesi. Hope you managed to try authentic Torajan/Bugis/Makassarese dishes while youโre in the province.
Somba Opu memang terkenal dengan jajaran toko emas nya… Suami dulu membeli emas di situ waktu mau menikahi saya… โบ
Selain itu banyak toko souvenir khas Sulawesi Selatan dan juga menjual aneka makanan termasuk kopi Toraja
welcome to the new dimension..
stil in Indonesia but you will experience many different things
then the content goes to Dieng, Central Java๐
Thank you for your explore Indonesian country and you are very good people's and matched pair๐๐๐
wahh senang sekali melihat ekspresi kalian menjelajahi sedikit kota Makassar๐selamat bersenang senang di Sulawesi Selatanโค
Mantap
Orang indo demen banget dah foto ama bule๐kecuali di bali keknya๐
When you come to Losari beach at that time, you saw lots of police and many sarnafil tents being dismantled. That's because a few days earlier a joint non-war exercise was held, namely the Komodo Multilateral Naval Exercise 2023. Navies from 36 countries took part in this exercise which was centered in the Makassar Strait. This activity is focused on regional maritime cooperation, disaster management, and humanitarian operations. I was able to see the combined practice, because I came to Makassar before the event was held. At that time, I saw that there was a parachuting attraction, a fighter plane air show, and many warships anchored around Losari beach from 36 countries.
Sop Konro (Beef Ribs Soup) is the local cuisine you should try
Fantastic
wow, adventure in Sulawesi, well I hope you can visit Tana Toraja too, I want to go there but not possible at the moment……
great video Nat & Carles… please enjoy your stay ๐
In Sulawesi there is a statue of Jesus in the city of Mekale tana toraja,This statue has a height of 40 meters exceeding the statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro brazil.
Kota yang keren, tp sangat disayangkan orang meninggalkan gelas kertas minum di atas benteng, sungguh tidak bertanggung jawab. Padahal masuk gratis.
makasar soup …. coto makasar….. must try…
Try the first train in South Sulawesi guys, Marros-Barru.
Im hereee ๐๐๐
Those statues you met on Losari beach are national freedom fighter heroesโฆand so are most of the human statues throughout Indonesia most often are the national heroes of freedom fighters before Indonesiaโs independence who come from that area
"Jalan-jalan" is the magic words to answer..๐
I always look forward to your uploads, you never disappoint.
Enjoy SULAWESI..
Guys, can you share the music you used? So calm and good
Yeay , my hometown . Well is not my hometown actually, because i was born and raise in West Papua Raja Ampat , but Makassar are where my parents come from and i went to collage there . Back in 2010 . So yeah . And im never go to the Rotterdam Fort , well just out side because at theres so many cafe there . Lucky you guys last im visit makassar the Mosque is still under construction. But i bet you guys will love Toraja. Ive been there 3 times already to catching sunrise, and you guys will love the Cave , and the cliffs where they put those who pass away
Ahhh im a fans you guys . Are u still in Indonesia? Because i know the video you upload is very late than actual travel. Let me know in this comment if you guys in jakarta .
Mix gado-gado with rice is absolutely allow Carles, because in some place that sell Gado-Gado you can also order Gado-Gado with rice,, I often order gado-gado with rice when I was lived in Depok (Near Jakarta area) ๐ @NatalieandCarles
What a coincidence! I'll be traveling to Makassar next week and you guys uploaded this. I'm an Indonesian who's learning about Makassar from a foreigner. How ironic haha.
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Before you heading to Toraja you can visit : Bantimurung Waterfall and Rammang Rammang Village in Maros. For culinary : Konro Bakar ( grilled ribs) and Coto Makassar. Makassar is famous for its fresh seafood and there are many kind of fish. Near Losari Beach (behind the hospital) you can find many seafood restaurant such as New Dinar Restaurant etc. If you missed Pizza there is small authentic Italian Restaurant (the owner is Italian) called La Piccola Italy on those street ( Lamadukeleng Street). Enjoy your trip in Sulawesi.
August is Indonesia's independence day to be exact on the 17th I hope you don't miss that๐
Love you Guys
From Indonesia๐ฎ๐ฉ
Because i like you both, pls allow me give some suggestions : ) about some things that usually make netizens here more interested ;
* Show more clip about conversations with local ppl
* Expand your Bahasa vocabulary, just standard sentence. Although it seems wrong, ppl here will feel it fun when foreigners are just learning their language
* Do more clips when you're asking for help or asking something.
Because social culture here prefers things related to interaction.
It will probably makes your subscribers grow faster