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Written by Ron B
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
 Flame Thrower at Gapura Hotel | Images from SulawesiWe went to South Sulawesi for a week, and arrived in Makassar (formerly Ujung Pandang) which is the capital on the west coast. On our last night we took a small group to a restaurant that is over the water on a pier at the Gapura Hotel. Part of the entertainment was provided by a group of fire dancers, and here we see one of them throwing a huge flame from his mouth. | | Our next stop was the city on Bone on the east coast. Bajoe is the local port a few kilometres from the town centre. It is busy with lots of boats tied up, lots of trucks on the pier as well as stalls to sell fish. Here you see long boats with plenty of loading/unloading activity, and further back is the large ferry that crosses to South East Sulawesi every night. |  Boats, People and the Ferry |  Mosque at Ujung Lero | Pare Pare is the second biggest city in South Sulawesi. It is the thrid city we visited and is back on the west coast but further north than Makassar. From our hotel on the water, we could see across the water to a settlement with a mosque a few Km away. We drove there to take a look - and this is the mosque. Read on to see lots more photos from these 3 cities. |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
 Bedugul Market | A Police EncounterThe Google Earth image shows Bedugul Market, the yellow line the route through the carpark, the grey rectangle near the exit is a Honda CRV parked inconveniently in the exit, and the blue rectangle is us as we creep around them watching to see that our back right corner does not contact their left back corner, and at the same time watching motorbikes near our front left corner. We succeeded and left. They then followed us, waved us over and began to tell us we scratched their car. I knew we had not, felt it a waste of time and drove on - probably this was a mistake. In Singaraja, police waved us over, looked for scratches, there were many phonecalls, we went to their post, the Honda arrived, the Honda people searched in vain for scratches, much talking, more phonecalls, then finally it was all over with no trouble, no request forpayments, or anything. | | | |
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Written by Ron B
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Glen's 30th Birthday |  Making decorations for the party |  Completed decorations for the party | | Sophie and Glen have taken a trip to the nearby Buddhist Temple and then the West Bali National Park. Menawhile, preparations begin for the party. |  Food and Equipment arrives in the kitchen |  A truckload of musicians and equipment arrives | | Also in the early afternoon, the chefs and their helpers bring food and equipment and begin preparing the dishes. In the late afternoon a truckload of people arrives - they are the musicians dressedtraditonally and they also have the gamelans and gongs. |  Musicians checking the surroundings |  Musicians setting up instruments |  Food is being served |  Sophie and Glen | Before 6pm, local friends from a salon getSophie and Glen dressed traditionally. Guests were arriving from 6pm andsoon after 7pm we were seated and the food started arriving.
|  Glen with Dancer |  Glen with Dancer | | There was a Balinese dancer who requested guests to dance with her - almpost everyone got a chance. |  Sophie and Sushi |  Glen with Sushi |  Chef with the Dancer | | | |
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