With the bus from Rante Pao to Tentana

I haven't uploaded a lot the last weeks because the bad internet connections in Sulawesi. So I try to upload the last 2 weeks video's the nest couple of days.

To the toilet in the, well what is, a ticket office and departure point for this bus company and clothing store, I wouldn't know about the second.
After about 20 minutes exactly on time we left for the long drive.
3 hours after the last pee and coffee break, the urge starts again.
Leaving the mountains Palopo is on the sea, don't know if we will encounter high mountains.
Compared to our departure 2.5 hours ago we are 10 kilometers closer to our arrival place Tentana.
From Anastasia I got a bowl of toast and tomato and egg sandwich 🥪 for on the road and the Toraja delicacy turds.
What a sweetheart she is.
The driver has been on the phone for 50% of the three hours that he has been driving, the smoking driver has also sat in the front again. I will try to avoid this company if possible next time
I don't understand why they just make the roads half a meter wider on both sides, then the motorbikes can drive there, and as a car driver or bus driver you don't get stuck behind a motorbike that drives very slowly like Hendrik for a long time.
I think it would also be better for the economy if the traffic would move along a bit.
9 hours on the road, of which we certainly stood still for an hour because the road was closed due to roadworks, luckily it's not the rainy season because then you don't get happy in these mountains.
There were 2 buses coming down the mountain at a speed, they were doing the super G for buses, not normal. That was a real close one.
I don't know what the rules are here in the mountains, but if there are any, most people don't stick to them anyway, yes sitting at home behind the Geraniums is probably safer, but terribly boring.
13 hours on the road, I expected flat roads near the lake but it is still very mountainous, with very bad narrow roads. I did contact my accommodation and they send a motorbike to pick me up.
Arrived in Tentana after 14 hours, here too you are simply let out at a point and can of course get on at the edge of the village, why don't they drop you off in the centre.
Bought some coffee to be on the safe side for tomorrow morning.
Said goodbye to Frans and his girlfriend (forgotten name again) their pickup arrived quite quickly.
My contact person, read owner who is in Surabaya, I heard later, was surprised that I was already there. Apparently the bus usually doesn't arrive until midnight.
My motorbike took another fifteen minutes, he showed me his WhatsApp message with my name.
And it starts to drizzle, of course I have that again.
The ride took about fifteen minutes because you first have to go all the way south to take the bridge over the river, then a short distance on a narrow road to the lodge. He showed me the room, and pointed to the toilet, then downstairs where this security is also from 18:00 to 06:00.
We sat there talking for a while, the assistant fortunately speaks reasonable English, he offered me beer and other drinks, but I politely refused, because I have had 9 busy days behind me, and then this bus trip of 14 hours, fortunately I sometimes look like a Chinese with my slit eyes, so he thought I was terribly tired, a little bit but I was able to doze a little on the bus every now and then.

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