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MANADO CITY

Manado, once described in guide books as one of Indonesia's cleanest cities, has changed a lot in recent years. After a period of neglect at the end of the 90's a huge building boom has started alongside the so-called "Manado Boulevard", the city's main road. Large areas have been gained by land reclamation projects along what used to be the city's coastline. New malls, shopping centers, department stores, hotels and restaurants have opened or are still being built. Especially the area around the Mega Mall, just a few hundred meters south of the city's landmark Ritzy Hotel, has become a new center of attraction and popular meeting point. The mall itself - apart from the usual Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken - has some very reasonable shops and at present is one of Manado's few places where you can get a good cappuccino and other hot and cold coffee drinks.

Some other parts of the city are still in a less good shape but efforts are underway to prepare Manado for the "World Ocean Conference" (2009) and for "Manado: World Tourism City 2010". Yet garbage collection doesn't always work as it should, road conditions are sometimes poor, and power & tab water supply is often problematic. However, compared to a couple of years ago improvements are clearly visible.

In any case you are hopefully not visiting North Sulawesi with the expectation of everything being like at home. Be a bit open-minded and adventurous and a stay in Manado with its hospitable and fun-loving population will be a pleasant experience. However, in terms of typical tourist sites it doesn't have much to offer, so if you don't have lots of time better don't consider spending too much of it in the city. Rather go for some of the many attractions in the surroundings which are described on this site.

Budget accommodation: Since the demise of the Smiling Hostel there is no place anymore that can be described as a "backpacker's favourite". Try the friendly Bersehati Hotel with ok rooms, or Rex Hotel. The Celebes Hotel near the harbour has gone more upmarket but still has some cheaper rooms and is quite convenient if you want to take the public boat to Bunaken. The hotel has incorporated what used to be the Smiling Hostel building.

Middle class hotels: Most centrally located are Hotel Central, Hotel New Queen and Celebes Hotel (at harbour). The Hotel Formosa in the south of Manado (ocean side of Bahu Mall) has ok rooms but I found the glass wash basin in the bathroom quite dirty and a bit disgusting. Other options are Hotel Minahasa, Regina Hotel and Golden Dragon Hotel.

Luxury Resorts and Hotels: Without doubt the most convenient location right in the city center has the Ritzy Hotel Manado which is also the city's biggest hotel. Less centrally located is the Gran Puri. Still relatively new and with a good location at Boulevard Mall is the Quality Hotel, with nice rooms. Personally I found the restaurant there not very convincing though.
Outside of town there are for example the Tasik Ria Resort, Santika Hotel, Kima Bajo Resort and Hotel Sedona which is the only 5 Star hotel in the province (I can't really say that I understand a lot about these ratings but personally I wouldn't see Sedona as 5 Star hotel. Let's put it like this: Judging from my own experiences at this hotel there is quite a bit of room for improvement...).

BUNAKEN ISLAND DIVE SITES Lekuan I * A very popular diving spot, Lekuan I with a Drop off and vertical bending wall with little caves, soft corals, giant barrel sponges, gorgonians, black corals. * * Also there are many schools of red tooth trigger fish, pyramid butterfly fish, banner fish and fusilier schools. In addition, mostly big green turtles, big napoleons, white or black tip reef shark, giant and blue fin trevally, groupers, big emperor and from time to time eagle rays,tunas and black fin barracuda. * * Rated: Advanced diver with 20 logged dives; medium-strong current; average visibility 10-40m.

Low Price with Rental OZ Car in Manado City - Indonesia

pack a day for 1 person Rp.1.000.000 (or) USD $ 120 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Minahasa Tour,Manado City Tour,Bunaken,Lembe Island Tour ; outside the inn / hotel

pack a day for 3 -5 person Rp.500.000,- (or) USD $ 60 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Minahasa Tour, Manado City Tour,Bunaken,Lembe Island Tour ; outside the inn / hotel

pack a day for 1 person Rp.1.000.000 (or) USD $ 120 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Tangkoko tour outside the inn / hotel (plus Rp.85.000,-or $10 ; for ticket masuk)

pack a day for 3-5 person Rp.500.000 (or) USD $ 60 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Tangkoko tour outside the inn / hotel (plus Rp.85.000,-or $10 ; for ticket masuk)

PACKET TOUR IN RENTAL OZ CAR

pack a day for 1 person Rp.1.000.000 (or) USD $ 120 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Minahasa Tour,Manado City Tour,Bunaken,Lembe Island Tour ; outside the inn / hotel

pack a day for 3 -5 person Rp.500.000,- (or) USD $ 60 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Minahasa Tour, Manado City Tour,Bunaken,Lembe Island Tour ; outside the inn / hotel

pack a day for 1 person Rp.1.000.000 (or) USD $ 120 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Tangkoko tour outside the inn / hotel (plus Rp.85.000,-or $10 ; for ticket masuk)

pack a day for 3-5 person Rp.500.000 (or) USD $ 60 already includes the cost of driver, petrol, translation, lunch ,....... for Tangkoko tour outside the inn / hotel (plus Rp.85.000,-or $10 ; for ticket masuk)

For more information about the Reserve and the various kinds of partly endemic animals that can be seen here, have a look here. Or you want to see a Tarsier photo? More information about the "world's smallest primate".
Four basic homestays in Batuputih, near the park entrance, all with fullboard and about the same prices as on Bunaken Island: Mama Roos, Londa Linda, Ranger and Tarsius.

The remote Pulisan Jungle Beach Resort offers an excellent alternative to the homestays in Batuputih/Tangkoko. It is located at a beautiful beach near Pulisan village. For the early morning jungle trek with a ranger you will be taken by boat to Batuputih.

Booking domestic flights from outside of Indonesia is always a lot more expensive than from within the country.
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM/TO MANADO
Route Airline Days Departure Time
Singapore - Manado
Manado - Singapore
(valid 28 Mar - 24 Oct 2010)
Silkair 1,3,5,6 Dep 09:25, Arr 13:05
Dep 13:50, Arr 17:05
1=Monday 2=Tuesday 3=Wednesday 4=Thursday 5=Friday 6=Saturday 7=Sunday

Singapore - Manado currently (April 2010) is the only international flight from and to Manado. Flights from Kuala Lumpur (Air Asia) and Davao (Wings Air) have been cancelled.

Airport Tax: Domestic Rp. 35,000 International Rp. 100,000

Airline Websites:
Batavia Air
Garuda Indonesia
Lion Air/Wings Air
Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Silkair

Stopover in Singapore enroute to Manado?
If you are travelling to Manado from outside South East Asia, it is likely that you will stopover in Singapore to catch your connecting flight to Manado. Here's a couple of suggestions for visiting Singapore.

Raja Laut in lingua indonesiana significa "il re del mare". In queso caso ci si riferisce a un pesce, ma non a un pesce qualunque. Il Celecanto è un pesce preistorico che si era creduto estinto fino al secolo scorso. Esistono due specie di celacanto la latimeria chalumnae e la latimeria menadoensis.

Latimeria chalumnae fu scoperta nel 1938 in Sudafrica, quando Mayore Courtenay Latimer responsabile del Museo East London, individuò il celacanto fra alcuni pesci pescati da un motopeschereccio sul fiume Chalumna.
Latimeria menadoensis, invece, fu scoperta più recentemente, nel 1997, in Indonesia, quando due turisti, i coniugi Erdmann, scoprirono in un mercato nell’isola di Manado Tua un pesce che sembrava Gombessa, una specie di pesce chiamata da loro Re del Mare. Successivamente studiandone il DNA, i ricercatori scoprirono che la specie era anche diversa dalla latimeria chalumnae e fu chiamata latimeria menadoensis.

Il celacanto oggi vive nell’Oceano Indiano, fra le Comores e il Madascar, in Sud Africa e in Indonesia.

E’ un pesce di grosse dimensioni e può arrivare fino ai due metri di lunghezza e gli 80 Kg. di peso. Vive in media 60 anni, preferisce nuotare in profondità e predilige andare a caccia durante la notte. Si nutre di anguille, razze, piccoli squali e calamari. Nuotano in modo particolare, in quanto muovono le pinne a coppia, o le due anteriori, le pettorali o le due posteriori le pelviche.

Mount Lokon and Mahawu PDF Print
13-03-2007
Both these mountains each Lokon have a height of 1580 m and 1311 m. Mahawu have
Both have a very beautiful crater lake. Among both Lokon more beautiful.

Climbing to the peak by climbers in reasonable condition. The location of the hot crater 600 m from the top of the mountain and crater lake 60 m inside. The best times ranging from Kakaskasen climbing trip at 07.00 this morning and travel to the crater in the morning in the still cold weather and beautiful.

Tour Bunaken Island

Bunaken Island;...BUNAKEN ISLAND DIVE SITES Lekuan I * A very popular diving spot, Lekuan I with a Drop off and vertical bending wall with little caves, soft corals, giant barrel sponges, gorgonians, black corals. * * Also there are many schools of red tooth trigger fish, pyramid butterfly fish, banner fish and fusilier schools. In addition, mostly big green turtles, big napoleons, white or black tip reef shark, giant and blue fin trevally, groupers, big emperor and from time to time eagle rays,tunas and black fin barracuda. * * Rated: Advanced diver with 20 logged dives; medium-strong current; average visibility 10-40m.