After a couple of days in Makasaar, Alon decided to go on a three day trip to Tana Toraja, 9 hour bus ride away, where there was a lot to be seen.
It was good for both John and Alon to have a bit of time out after a long time together. It was also good to have a bit of time away from the boat and see a bit of inland in Indonesia.
We arrived at Makasaar, the third biggest city in Indonesia. Time to rest...
We stayed more than a week in Makasaar, doing a little bit of maintenance and errands every day and resting a lot. We decided to extend our visas here and that took some time.
Tanabiru is a cute little village where the main occupation is boat building. The harbour is just full of beautiful indonesian boat and there were a lot on the beach.
The people in the village were most friendly, inviting us in for coffee and trying to help us out all the time, in exchange for only our friendship.
It really did look like Venice! apart from the absence of any Italians, masks, culture, Gondolas, canals and all... but all those houses were built on stilts above the water, most impressive...
Buru, a small island between Papua and Sulawesi. We really got into a crazy routine of doing over-night sails, stopping for a night and sailing again.
We need to cover a lot of ground in order to get through to Singapore before our visas run out, but we got really exsausted from sailing all the time, without seeing much of the country.
So in Buru we stopped for a couple of days and that was great. Buru used to be a prison island and that's how it's still marked on our charts...
We found a really nice waterfall and a friendly village, where every second house is a shop for some obscure reason...
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