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Trip To Makassar Part I (03) - Losari Beach

Losari Beach is located in the coastal city of Makassar is quite famous in Indonesia. Festivals and competitions are often held at this beach. Losari more accurately named Losari bay because it is curved inward. because it is a natural bay when the sea is very calm here. Do not know also if it is here in the windy season.

Many people who come to wait to enjoy the sunset here. Twilight calm amid the bustle of the city.

Trip To Makassar Part I (02)

Walk around in Makassar city are other nuances of a city that weather is warm enough. Pour sweat profusely while walking round the streets of the city. With a friend and armed with a camera, we enjoyed the scenery there.

The people who sell food, clothing, and other merchandise. The pengamen, artisan rickshaw, taxi drivers and people who go by. Like most other thickly populated city, Makassar distinction still friendly. men look fierce, but actually they are very friendly.

Pretty much the object can be shot. Especially at Losari Beach. Many statues and monuments. Unique people. Faithful Holy Mosque which is located off the coast Losari. The golden sunset. And calm seas.

Unfortunately, Fort Rotterdam can not be shot from a distance. Greatly hinder cadger to shoot from distance. The fortress was when the object is important because there is a historical building in Makassar. So lose the spirit to take his picture.

Trip To Makassar Part I (01)

Makassar

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Makassar (Buginese-Makassarese) — sometimes spelled Macassar, Mangkasara — is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably. The port city is located at 5°8′S 119°25′ECoordinates:  5°8′S 119°25′E, on the southwest coast of the island of Sulawesi, facing the Makassar Strait.

Main sights

Makassar is home to several prominent landmarks including the 16th century Dutch fort Fort Rotterdam, Trans Studio Makassar—the third largest indoor theme park in the world and the Karebosi Link—the first underground shopping center in Indonesia and the floating mosque located right on the Losari Beach.

Cap Go Meh Singkawang Festival - Part 02

 

Cap Go Meh Singkawang Festival 2013 in Singkawang Town at February, 24.

 

Cap Go Meh Singkawang Festival - Part 01

As is the case for the Chinese community in Indonesia, Chinese New Year celebrations to welcome the Chinese New Year is always celebrated in the grandest tradition of all levels of Chinese society Singkawang every year. For those Chinese New Year celebrations were no different from other Indonesian society while celebrating Eid or Christmas.

 Chinese New Year traditions emerging from China, which is regarded as an expression of gratitude to God for the harvest and also hope that the next season to obtain better results. Chinese New Year is always celebrated for 15 days in a row and the 15th day of the summit called Cap Go Meh. In the tradition of Hokkien means the night of the 15th which is the peak Chinese New Year celebrations, and Cap Go Meh is celebrated in particular.

In Cap Go Meh This year will be celebrated on February 24, 2013.

If you want to be explored further, Cap Go Meh in Indonesia itself is a blend of Chinese culture and Indonesia, which is a rice cake Cap Go Meh. Lontong is authentic Indonesian food while the Cap Go Meh is a tradition born of the Lunar New Year. 

The highlight of the Chinese New Year or Cap Go Meh is meant to ward off bad luck or a disorder in the future. The expulsion of evil spirits and bad luck in the suppression of Cap Go Meh Tatung symbolized in the show. Tatung is the main medium Cap Go Meh. Places Tatung filled with mystical and thrilling, as many a man possessed, and these people are called Tatung. The ceremony was led by a pastor calling tatung who accidentally brought the spirit of a deceased person to permeate Tatung. The spirits are summoned spirits believed to be well capable of warding off evil spirits who want to disrupt the harmony of life. The spirits are summoned to dirasukkan into Tatung is believed to be the hero of a Chinese legend, such as warlords, judges, poets, princes and other saints.

In Tatung attractions that already possessed the spirit of the dead behaving strangely, some stomp or knife blade of the sword, others stick tapered steel wires up through the right cheek left cheek. Strangely the slightest Tatung's not scratched or injured.

That is why, the Cap Go Meh in different Singkawang Cap Go Meh celebrations in other places, either in Indonesia or in places other than Indonesia that still celebrate Cap Go Meh.