Our First Day in SULAWESI (Celebes): Exploring Makassar 🇮🇩 Indonesia Travel Vlog (BEST Gado Gado)

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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