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Mark Moxon's Travel Writing

Indonesia: Ujung Pandang

A busy road in Ujung Pandang
A busy road in Ujung Pandang

Sulawesi, according to the papers and travellers I've managed to consult en route, is looking like a pretty dangerous place to visit in early . There have been riots in the capital of Ujung Pandang between the Chinese and the Indonesians, resulting in a military infiltration to keep the peace, but not before a number of people were killed and huge amounts of property burned; there's been an earthquake in Parepare, some 100km north of Ujung Pandang, that is supposed to have caused chaos; and northern and central Sulawesi are apparently on fire and full of smoke. However, like most news you hear along the grapevine, some of the facts have given way to fiction somewhere in the telling.

Planet Makassar
A blatant rip-off of Planet Hollywood in Ujung Pandang, whose old colonial name was Makassar
Fort Rotterdam
Fort Rotterdam
Fort Rotterdam
Fort Rotterdam