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VideoPARADISE IN MINAHASA, FEBRUARY 2008 - 25MbFeb 19, '08 11:53 AM
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Photo AlbumOTHERS IN MENADO (7 photos)Feb 15, '08 11:49 AM
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Manado is the capital of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. Manado is located at the Bay of Manado, and is surrounded by a mountainous area. The city has about 417,548 inhabitants. The municipality of Manado is divided into nine districts: Malalayang, Sario, Wanea, Wenang, Tikala, Mapanget, Singkil, Tuminting and Mapanget.

History
The Dutch East India Company built a fortress in Manado in 1658. As with regions in eastern Indonesia, Manado has undergone christianization by Dutch missionaries, including Riedel and Schwarz. The Javanese prince Diponegoro was exiled to Manado by the Dutch government in 1830. The English biologist Alfred Wallace visited Manado in 1859, and praised the town for its beauty. The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing during World War II. In 1958, the headquarters of the rebel movement Permesta were moved to Manado. When Permesta confronted the central government with demands for political, economic and regional reform, Jakarta responded in Manado by bombing the city in February 1958, and then invading in June 1958.

Tourism and Places of interest
Sam Ratulangi International Airport
As the largest city in the region, Manado is a key tourist transit point for visitors. Sam Ratulangi International Airport of Manado is one of the main entry ports to Indonesia. In 2005, no less than 15,000 international passengers entered Indonesia via Sam Ratulangi International Airport. Ecotourism is the biggest attraction in Manado. Scuba diving and snorkelling on the nearby island of Bunaken are popular attractions. Ban Hin Kiong Temple is another tourism spot in the city, especially during the chinese new year celebration. Souvenirs shops are located on B.W. Lapian street. Other places of interest are nearby Lake Tondano, Lokon Volcano, Klabat Volcano and Mahawu Volcano.

Shopping malls
It is easy to find places to shop around Manado, since many of the shopping malls are located on Piere Tendean Boulevard. There are four recent shopping malls there, namely Mega Mall, Manado Town Square, Boulevard Mall and IT Center. Traffic jam usually occurs at Piere Tendean Boulevard because of the existence of the shopping malls.

The hilltop town of Tomohon, known locally as the "City of Flowers", sits in a saddle between two volcanoes, Lokon and Mahawu. The climate is delightfully temperate. Fruits and a wide range of flowers - hibiscus, angel trumpets, bougainvillaea, lilies, gladiolas, carnations and irises - are grown commercially to supply markets in Manado. The town's main road is lined with flower stalls, every yard seems to overflow with lush foliage, and the roadsides are planted with deep red croton plants. Well-proportioned ponies pull beautifully decorated horsecarts, known as bendi, often leaving little room for motorised traffic.
Tomohon is famed as an educational centre, and there is a large auditorium atop Bukit Inspirasi, a hill that gives a striking view of the town with Mt. Lokon in the background.

Lake Tondano, lake in north central Indonesia, on the northernmost tip of the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), on the Minahasa Peninsula. The lake is 14 km (9 mi) long and nearly 6 km (4 mi) wide. It rests on a plateau 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level in a valley between the Lambean Mountains and paddy fields. The mountains, many of them volcanic, were formed by the pressures between the two shelves of the Asian and Australian continents. Later, some of the valleys between the mountains filled with water. Around Lake Tondano most of the rock is sedimentary and dates from the Tertiary Period (from 65 million to 1.6 million years ago). The Manado River flows from the lake north to the Celebes Sea, at the city of Manado, a short distance away.

During the Dutch colonial period (which ended in 1949), the region was a coffee-growing area. During World War II (1939-1945), the Japanese occupied the area and dug extensive caves near the lake where they stored food and water and took shelter during air raids. Today, the caves are a tourist attraction. In addition to coffee, cloves and coconuts are grown near the lake. Tondano, a nearby town, has a cool, refreshing climate and is an important population center for the area

Woloan
Every village has it's own speciality.Woloan is known for its traditional wooden houses. The carpenters of Woloan build the wooden houses on poles, and are being showed along the main road as you enter the village. Potential buyers have almost a village of houses to choose from. Ones choosen the house is taken a part and loaded on trucks to be transported, to your place where it will be offloaded and rebuild.And so it is possible to send houses all over the world

Kawangkoan
The large village in the Minahasa highlands of North Sulawesi consisting of 1,206 households engaged mainly as farmers and coconut plantation laborers. As with the majority of public schools in Indonesia, Kawangkoan's elementary school is severely dilapidated and no funding is available for renovations. The village government will create at least 75 acres of permanent no-take rainforest in exchange for Seacology funding the rehabilitation of their elementary school.

BITUNG
The city of Bitung located on the northern coast of Sulawesi, approximately 47 km from Manado.

It covers a total area of 30,400 Ha. comprice of 3 districts and 44 villages with a total population of 103,183 people (1992). Bitung is an important port in Eastern Indonesia and also a tourist gateway to Indonesia. The port is well equipped with a wharf capable for ocean liner. The uniqueness of this Municipality is the wildlife sanctuary at nearby area and Lembeh island that stands like a natural shield for for protecting it from winds and waves. It is believed that the name"Bitung" was taken from the name of a kind of shady trees grown on the coastal areas where people could take shelter from sun, rain and wind.


article taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manado
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761583430/lake_tondano.html
http://www.geocities.com/mlumenta/Woloan.html
http://www.seacology.org/projects/individualprojects/INDON_kawangkoan2005.htm
http://www.sulut.go.id/tourism/bitung.html

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Photo AlbumWARUGA MINAHASA ANCIENT SEMETARY (15 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:42 PM
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This ancient cemetery of Minahasan ancestors consist of 144 stone sarcophagi, remnants of the Megalithic age. "Waruga" sarcophagi are unique square stone with holes in the middle and prism shaped lids. The tombs are carved with various motifs such as human beings, plants, animals, and traditional geometrical motifs like clouds, strings, curls and double braids. The cemetery is located in Sawangan village, about 24 km from Manado.

Waruga is a stone grave made of domato stone or mountain stone. Some warugas are already hundreds of years old, some of them are 500 years old, and some are even 1,200 years old. In 1817, the warugas were collected, and they were all 144 warugas. All over Minahasa, there are 2,000 warugas. The making of waruga was prohibited in 1800 because of the spreading of cholera and typhoid which might be caused by the unpleasant smell coming out of the warugas. Since then, dead people have been buried under the ground.

Waruga is the traditional cemetery of Minahasan. That time, everybody made their own warugas. On the warugas they carved motifs which reflected each of their occupations. If the person was a judge, then the motif was court of justice. In the cemetery, there is a waruga with the motif of a woman giving birth to a child. It is said that it is the grave of a midwive. According to the local belief, childless couple could have children if they visit the midwive's waruga.

The way to do a funeral:
When a person dies, then the corpse will be seated on a chair and tied there until it is stiff. After that, the corpse is untied, then it is brought to circle the house three times as a symbol that the person is no longer among his/her family, but in another world. The corpse then put into waruga with a plate under it, and all his/her beloved things (such as: blade, glass, bracelet, necklace, beads, pendant, etc) are also put inside waruga.

Waruga Museum
Ceramic plates which were buried inside warugas in Manado, displayed in Waruga Museum

article sources:
http://www.petra.ac.id/eastern/north_sul/tour_obj/waruga.htm
http://www.petra.ac.id/eastern/north_sul/tour_obj/waru_mus.htm


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Photo AlbumPRIVATE ZOO @ BATU PUTIH, BITUNG/TANGKOKO NATIONAL PARK (36 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:40 PM
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In spite of its situation in the centre of the archipelago, Celebes possesses a fauna of a very distinctive kind. The number of species is small, but in many cases they are peculiar to the island. Of land birds, for example, about 160 species are known, and of these not less than about 90 are peculiar, the majority of the remainder being Asiatic in distinction from Australian. Mammals are few in species, but remarkable, especially Macacus niger, an ape found nowhere else but in Bachian; Anoa depressicornis, a small ox-like quadruped which inhabits the mountainous districts; and the babirusa or pig-deer of the Malays. Some of the animals are probably descendants of specimens introduced by man; others are allied in species, but not identical, with mammals of Java and Borneo; others again, including the three just mentioned, are wholly or practically confined to Celebes. There are no large beasts of prey, and neither the elephant, the rhinoceros nor the tapir is represented. Wild-buffaloes, swine and goats are pretty common; and most of the usual domestic animals are kept. The horses are in high repute in the archipelago; formerly about 700 were yearly exported to Java, but the supply has considerably diminished.

The same peculiarity of species holds in regard to the insects of the Celebes (so far as they are known) as to the mammals and birds. Out of 118 species of butterflies, belonging to four important classes, no fewer than 86 are peculiar; while among the rose-chafers or Cetoniinae the same is the case in 19 out of 30. Equally remarkable with this presence of peculiar species is the absence of many kinds that are common in the rest of the archipelago; and these facts have been considered to indicate connexion with a larger land-mass at a very distant geological epoch, and the subsequent continuous isolation of Celebes. This view, however, has been controverted. It is held that in the Miocene and Pliocene periods there were land connexions with the Philippines, Java and the Moluccas, and through the last with Australasian lands to the east and south-east. Migration of species took place along these lines in both directions. Those immigrants which remained in what is now Celebes may have developed new species. Moreover, while Celebes has species which are peculiar to itself and one other of the islands just mentioned, it has none which it shares exclusively with Borneo, and thus the importance of the Macassar Strait as a biological division is indicated.

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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Celebes

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Photo AlbumWARANEY RAFTING @ NIMANGA RIVER - TIMBUKAR, SONDER (16 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:32 PM
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Photo AlbumCULINARY IN MANADO (7 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:25 PM
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Photo AlbumBUNAKEN UNDER WATER - UNDESCRIBEABLE (11 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:24 PM
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What visit to North Sulawesi is complete without one day to view the spectacular coral gardens of the Bunaken Marine Reserve. Declared a Marine Park in 1991, it is acknowledged as one of the top dive sites in the world. It is about 40 minutes drive from the resort to one of the dive centers or to the central harbor, where a motorized outrigger canoe or dive boat will whisk you to Bunaken Island in about 45 minutes.
Bunaken National Park is Marine Park with the most various species in the world. The fascination under water life in water territory of this a real Bunaken national park varieties, specific, on unique, and exotic, make this area as the beautiful North Sulawesi tourism and grow as one of famous marine park tourism object in the world. It is because of this location nearness with Manado city that only about 6 km from the downtown area, or from Tongkeina in Pisok foreland even only 3,5 km. Access to this location also very fluent, can be gone through speedboat within 20 up to 60 minutes.
The Reserve comprises of the Bunaken Islands, Siladen, Nain and Montehage, the dive and snorkeling sites are numerous and diverse. The drop off wall at Liang Cave in particular is rare in the world and described by enthusiasts as spectacular with caves, gullies and caverns harboring an immense wealth of marine life. Brilliantly colored fish dart amongst the vibrant coral and the water is clear and warm. It is ideal for the first snorkels or experienced who divers alike

About half an hour by a motorized outrigger canoe from Manado, Bunaken Island is a veritable paradise for snorkelers and scuba enthusiasts. The coral reef off Bunaken Island is particularly noted for the drop-off at Liang Cove. It is des-cribed by international divers as being among the most spectacular anywhere in the world, with caves, gullies, and caverns harboring an immense wealth of marine life. The water averages a balmy 28 degrees C and visibility is sensational (over) 30 m.

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Photo AlbumTATOOS (9 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:18 PM
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Photo AlbumMINAHASA ANCIENT CULTURAL CEREMONY @ WATU PINABETENGAN (15 photos)Feb 13, '08 2:17 PM
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According to Minahasa history, this is the place where the ancestors first divided up the land among the people. Watu Pinabetengan means "The stone of discussion about the division". The famous megalithic stone here is covered with crude, mysterious drawings and a script which has never been deciphered. It is located in Tompaso, about 45 km from Manado.

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EventPARADISE IN MINAHASA 2008Jan 7, '08 12:05 AM
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Start:     Feb 7, '08 04:00a
End:     Feb 11, '08 7:00p
Location:     Manado, North Sulawesi
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 !!

Pernah merasakan berada di negeri atas awan?
Ingin merasakan keindahan laut kelas dunia?
Ingin merasakan berhari-hari dimanjakan kelezatan masakan seafood nan yummiiii beraneka rasa?
Ingin merasakan jalan-jalan seru, mengunjungi tempat-tempat keren, foto-foto narsis & bertemu dengan teman-teman baru yang asiiiikk?
Daann.. masih bingung kemanakaaaah menghabiskan liburan Imlek Februari ’08?

Kalau masih bingung & ingin merasakan itu semuanya, yuuuuuuuuuuuuukkk. .. mari bergabung dengan JOIN ENTERPRISE dalam perjalanan "PARADISE IN MINAHASA 2008"!

KAPAN waktunya?
Tanggal 7 s.d. 10 Februari 2008 (kamis s.d. minggu)

Berapa BIAYA nya?
Rp 2.900.000,- (dua juta sembilan ratus ribu Rupiah)
Pembayaran di transfer ke rekening a.n. Inggrid Diana Setiawaty
BCA cabang Melawai, 0701204807
Bank Mandiri cabang Thamrin, 103 000 410 36999

TERM PEMBAYARAN
Pembayaran I : Rp 1.500.000,- paling lambat dibayarkan tanggal 15 Januari 2008.
Pelunasan Rp 1.400.000,- paling lambat dibayarkan tanggal 02 Februari 2008.

FASILITAS nya apa aja?
Tiket pesawat komersil PP : JAKARTA - MANADO - JAKARTA
Bus pariwisata eksekutif AC, Reclining Seat, TV, karaoke
Bermalam di village country suite TONDANO, KALASEY Beach dan di pusat kota MANADO .
10x makan uuenaaaaaaakk !! (al : sup kepala ikan, mujair bakar, ikan nike, cakalang fufu, ayam woku, sup brenebon, bubur manado , nasi ja'a, klapertaart, nasi kuning khas manado , dll, dll, dll)
Trip yang unik & funtastic! (pegunungan, sungai, laut)
Program acara yang seruuu..! (berkuda, rafting, beaching, swimming, snorkeling, sailing, diving, narsis every where! :D).
Special merchandise from JOIN ENTERPRISE.

Yang TIDAK TERMASUK ?
Airport tax bandara Soekarno Hatta & bandara Sam Ratulangi.
Biaya khusus perlengkapan diving.

ACARA nya ngapain ajaaaaaa siihhh...... ?
Perjalanan akan diadakan selama 4 hari, tidak perlu cuti panjang karena bertepatan dengan libur hari raya Imlek 2008. Kita akan mengunjungi tempat-tempat seruuu.. mulai dari pegunungan, sungai hingga explore di lautan sampe PUAASS! Tempat2 yang akan dikunjungi sbb :
- Pantai Malalayang, tempat makan ikan bakar yang terkenal enaaak !
- Lokon Resting Tomohon, dibawah kaki gunung Lokon yang memiliki pemandangan volcano yang menakjubkan !
- Danau Tondano terletak di ketinggian 700M dengan hawa sejuk sambil menikmati pisang goreng & teh hangat di sore hari.
- Bermalam di Coco House (seluruh rumah terbuat dari coconut tree).
- Rafting/arung jeram di sungai Timbukar, Sonder dengan grade 3+ s.d 4+ selama 2 jam.
- Pantai Moinit di Teluk Amurang, merupakan pantai yang memiliki air panas karena terdapat sumber belerang di dasar laut.
- Makan malam di cafe Lesehan, Boulevard Manado.
- Bermalam di rumah adat Minahasa yang terletak di tepi pantai Kalasey (dengan fasilitas modern) menyuguhkan pemandangan yang fantastic langsung berhadapan dengan laut & kota Manado tua.
- Melihat langsung industri rumah kayu ”knockdown” khas Minahasa di Woloan village..
- Menikmati keindahan laut Minahasa – tidak hanya Bunaken namun sekaligus kita akan melihat keindahan Bunaken, Gangga dan Lembe (The Golden Triangle of North Sulawesi).
- Melihat langsung makam purba “Waruga Ancient Graveyard”
- Traditional Bath di pemandian air panas Sumarendoh
- Makan malam di Café yang menyuguhkan life music (hmm.. ada BIBIR MANADO jg lho!)
- Jalan-jalan di Boulevard dan pusat kota Manado.

ITINERARY PERJALANAN
Kamis, 07 Feb '08
04.30 : Meeting point di Bandara Soekarno Hatta JAKARTA
06.00 : Terbang menuju Manado
12.00 : Tiba di bandara Sam Ratulangi MANADO
13.00 : Makan siang di pantai MALALAYANG
14.00 : Berfoto di "Lokon Resting Resort" - bawah kaki gunung Lokon, TOMOHON
15.00 : Menikmati pisang goreng & teh hangat di tepi danau TONDANO
16.00 : Berkuda bendi menuju village country suite TONDADO
17.00 : Tiba di Village Country Suite (santaaaii aah...)
19.00 : Makan malam (barbeque yummiii...)
20.00 : Games.. quiz... and fantastic story 'bout Minahasa
22.00 : Istirahat (zz...zz..z)

Jumat, 08 Feb '08
07.00 : Sarapan "Tinutuan" Bubur Manado
08.00 : Menuju SONDER
09.00 : Rafting di sungai TIMBUKAR, SONDER
11.00 : Mandi & Makan siang
13.00 : Menuju TELUK AMURANG
15.00 : Tiba di pantai "air panas" MOINIT, AMURANG (beaching)
17.00 : Menuju kota MANADO
18.30 : Makan malam di Café Lesehan, Boulevard MANADO
20.00 : Menuju pantai KALASEY
20.50 : Tiba di penginapan tepi pantai KALASEY
21..30 : Istirahat (zzz...zz... z..)

Sabtu, 09 Feb '08
07.00 : Sarapan “nasi kuning” di penginapan KALASEY
08.00 : Naik "PAJEKO" perahu kayu besar menuju Golden Triangle Spot (Bunaken,
Gangga, Lembe).
15.00 : Tiba di BITUNG menuju WOLOAN (melihat rumah adat Minahasa)
16.00 : Tiba di ROMBOKEN (mampir di "WARUGA ANCIENT GRAVEYARD")
17.00 : Mandi air panas di SUMARENDOH, ROMBOKEN
18.30 : Menuju MANADO
19.00 : Makan malam di MANADO
22.00 : Tiba di Hotel & istirahat (zz..zz..z.. )

Minggu, 10 Feb '08
07.00 : Sarapan di Hotel
08.00 : Checkout
09.00 : MANADO Explore (Boulevard street, dll)
11.00 : Makan siang di KP. KODO
12.00 : Menuju airport
13.00 : Tiba di airport SAM RATULANGI
14.25 : Fly to JAKARTA


Yang DIBAWA apa aja?
Pakaian selama 4 hari (sesuaikan dengan itenerery)
Jaket / sweater (Tomohon sejuuukk dan dingin - diperkirakan masih terjadi curah hujan kecil)
Swim suit (pastikan ini harus dibawa)
Toiletries (perlengkapan mandi)
Google & FIN (perlengkapan snorkeling)
Camera & handycam (foto2 narsis doong!)
Obat-obatan pribadi
Uang (tuk airport tax & beli oleh-oleh)

Masih KURANG JELAS??
Hubungi JOIN ENTERPRISE
Email : join.enterprise@ yahoo.com
JOe : 081 330 440 123 (jo_setlight@ yahoo.com)
INgrid : 0812 8600 520 / (021) 30226699 (imdetruth@yahoo. com)

Yuukk... yuukk.. ikutan yuuukk... Sayang banget kalo gak ikutan ‘coz Minahasa sudah dicanangkan menjadi tujuan Wisata Internasional 2010!

GO.. GO... Let's GO PARADISE !!



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note :
dvd presentation: http://c10dean.multiply.com/tag/manado%20mar'05
foto-foto Tondana dan sekitarnya: href="http://gried.multiply.com/photos/album/89/Danau_Tondano_MINAHASA">http://gried.multiply.com/photos/album/89/Danau_Tondano_MINAHASA
foto peta Sulawsi diambil dari : http://students.ukdw.ac.id/~22012583/sejarah.html
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