The main artery road of Makassar is Jalan Ahmad Yani where most of the financial,commercial and administrative offices were located.
Most of the ethnic local Chinese operates businesses with their residential houses(shoplot type) tend to concentrate around this part of Makassar(also known Ujung Pandang)
The Chinatown here is not that spectacular as not much activities can be seen.During the night this whole place can be very dark with sparsely lit streetlights.
Metropolitan Makassar has standing links to overseas communities bridging as twin cities namely:
1) Mobile,Alabama,United State of America
2) Aden,Yemen
3) Constanta,Romania,
4) Lismore,Australia
5) Peshawar,Pakistan
6) Hakodate,Japan
7) Tawau,Malaysia
8) Qingdao,China
9) Wellington,New Zealand
Mention Chinatown in any parts of the world,you definitely have the Chinese Temples.
In Makassar alone,there are four distinguish temples.
This one Gedung Istana Sakti Klenteng Xian Ma (Mother of Immortal )is at the corner of Jalan Sulawesi and Jalan Bali.
Other temples nearby include Tian Hou Gong (Heavenly Queen Temple) corner of Jalan Sulawesi and Jalan Serui.
Xuang Tian Shang Di Temple and The Long Xian Gong Temple.
The internal view of Xian Ma temple.
All visitors of any creed are allowed to enter this temple.
Dinasti Hotel lies off Jalan Sulawesi,Lombok 30 Street can be contacted at +62 411 3625657
email: info@dinastihotelmakassar.com
There's an in house massage outlet within,free wi-fi to all rooms.
Price range Rupiah350,000 onwards.
Strategically located in town center,walking distance ten minutes to Jalan Nusantara beside the harbour area where the nightlife gets hotter
For backpackers,across the Dinasti hotel here there's one guesthouse at the corner charging around Rupiah 70,000 fan private bathroom
Name:-Penginapan(Guesthouse) Kartini Tahel
Rupiah120,000 aircond attached bathroom
Room maximum two person,each additional pay Rupiah30,000 Kamar - room
Check in 06:00 WITA,Check out 13:00 WITA
*WITA stands for Waktu Indonesia Tengah.(Mid islands Indonesia time zone)
Late checkout pay Rupiah10,000 per hour fan room,also applies aircond room Rupiah 15,000 per hour
Vihara Ibu Agung Bahari (Tian Hou Gong Temple) one of the oldest temple in Makassar
- GPS:
- -5.130845568550237, 119.40663164627995
- Built in 1736 by Kapitan Ong Giap.
- Formerly the temple was known as Klenteng Istana Ratu Laut and was renamed to the present form in 1750 by Thio Heng Sioe.Most of the Chinese names have to be Indonesianised as required by the law.
- This building looked quite new but the actual one should be behind me where I took this photo.
- The old building looked totally wrecked.
Pelabuhan Makassar or Port of Makassar along Jalan Nusantara.- During the day,the street was lined with job hunters and when night falls the area being transformed into a red light area.
- To get a bus back to the airport,find a bus stop near the port side as the bus do ply along this route.
- For ferry services timetable refer to Government owned PT Pelni (Persero)
Tugu Selamat Datang di Makassar(Welcome to Makassar monument) similar to the one in Kota Jakarta. - View form the city center airport bus stop along Jalan Ahmad Yani.
- Traffic circle from the monument along the left is just a five minute walk to Fort Rotterdam.
- That cream colour building is Yazmin Hotel and two blocks beside is the Legend Hostel which I parked myself for three days while in Makassar.
- My arrival on the first day was greeted by Legend Hostel staff Henrik.
- The weather in Makassar was drizzling all throughout the day.and in the evening followed Hendrik to attend the Sunday mass at the nearby True Jesus Church or Gereja Yesus Sejati,
