Kodingareng Keke

On the recent presidential election day, Indonesian government decided make the day to be a public holiday. So, we got nothing to do at home and decided to take a short trip to Kodingareng Keke Island, it's only about 14km from Makassar. We then head down to sea port close to Gapura Hotel. We rent a boat for Rp. 550.000, and it could carry 10 persons.

Seaport

The boat

Leaving the seaport, going to Lae-Lae Island
to purchase gas for the boat enginee

Following is our trip route plotted on Google Earth. I wrote simple application to do location logging on my Android G1. For some reasons, the island is not shown in the satellite photo.

Kodingareng Trip Route

Our stop at Lae-Lae is almost not viawable on the map. Lae-Lae is small island close to Makassar, it's only about 1.5km from Makassar. There are some people permanently live on the island.

Lae-Lae

Samalona Island (~ 7km from Makassar)

We almost arrived at Kodingareng Keke

Water is crystal clear with a lot of coral reef,
perfect for snorkeling or diving but probably not for swimming

Waves were getting bigger and it's time to go home

We need to go around the island in order to travel back to Makassar due to the big waves

Last picture I took before being hit by big waves (~ 1.5m),
my camera was wet, luckily it's weatherproof :)

We arrived safely at Makassar, our trip back from Kodingareng was surely interesting, going through 1.5m tall waves.

Losari Beach

After going back from work, it's always nice to know that Losari beach is just couple minutes away from home, place to go to refresh my mind.

Lot of couples go there to enjoy sunset, wish my wife is here with me

Losari Beach

Goodbye Makassar

I have finally left my hometown Makassar. The feeling is mixed, I am happy to start a new journey with my wife, but at the same time, I also miss our family in Indonesia. Following is picture I took two days before I left Makassar city. It is taken from Taman Bahari, Pantai Losari, overviewing cityscape instead of the beach.

Makassar Cityscape

There are two main buildings shown in picture. The first one on the left is Stella Maris Hospital (Rumah Sakit Stella Maris). It is one of the well known hospital in Makassar. Another one on the right is Imperial Arya Duta Hotel. The hotel is not there yet when I still live in Makassar (i.e. ~13 years ago). Time did fly very fast. The hotel is 5 star hotel overlooking Losari Beach (Pantai Losari). Viewing sunset from the top of this hotel must be amazing, even though I haven't tried it yet :)